A federal grand jury indicted twenty of the rioters on December 24,1870, while Woods was awaiting a response to a letter he sent to U.S. Supreme Court Justice Joseph P. Bradley, inquiring whether federal law, particularly the Enforcement Act of 1870, was applicable.
A federal grand jury indicted twenty of the rioters on December 24,1870, while Woods was awaiting a response to a letter he sent to Joseph P. Bradley, associate justice of the Supreme Court of the United States. Woods wished to know whether federal law, particularly the Enforcement Act of 1870, was applicable.