Coon v. State
Mississippi Supreme Court
Error to Wilkinson circuit court. Posey, J. William C. Coon was indicted and tried at the December term, 1848, of the court below, for the larceny of Caesar, the slave of James A. Stewart. He was found guilty, and his motion for a new trial being overruled, he embodied the evidence in a bill of exceptions, and brings his case to this court by a writ of error. The opinion of the court contains all the evidence.
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Error to Wilkinson circuit court. Posey, J. William C. Coon was indicted and tried at the December term, 1848, of the court below, for the larceny of Caesar, the slave of James A. Stewart. He was found guilty, and his motion for a new trial being overruled, he embodied the evidence in a bill of exceptions, and brings his case to this court by a writ of error. The opinion of the court contains all the evidence. Contended, 1. That the jury erred in disregarding, in the absence of any proof to the contrary, the statement of Coon that he bought the slave from John H. Scott. 2 Phill. Ev., note…
1Opinion of the Court
Smith, J.:
This was an indictment for negro stealing; It was tried in the Wilkinson circuit court, and resulted in the conviction of the plaintiff in error.
No objection was made to the instructions given by the court, and no exception taken to the admission of any evidence which was submitted to the jury. A motion was made for a new trial, which, being overruled, a bill of exceptions was filed to the decision of the court on the motion, and the evidence spread upon the record.
The slave, who was the subject of the larceny charged, at the time of the alleged taking, was a runaway; and it is…
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