Grady v. State
Supreme Court of Georgia
Indictment, in Troup Superior Court. Tried before Judge Hill, November adjourned Term, 1851. At the November adjourned Term, 1851, of Troup Superior Court, Thomas Grady was placed upon trial, on an indictment for “anattempt to procure a slave to commit a crime.”
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Indictment, in Troup Superior Court. Tried before Judge Hill, November adjourned Term, 1851. At the November adjourned Term, 1851, of Troup Superior Court, Thomas Grady was placed upon trial, on an indictment for “anattempt to procure a slave to commit a crime.” The facts, as disclosed by the evidence, were these : On the night of the 12th of July, 1851, in the County of Troup, the defendant was heard counselling and advising a negro slave, named James, the property of Robert O. Moreland, of Meriwether County, to induce and carry away to some free State, two negro slaves, to wit: “Fed and…
1Opinion of the Court
By the Court.
Lumpkin, J.
delivering the opinion.
[1.] The first error complained of is> the refusal by the Court, *255to dismiss the indictment, on the ground that it charged no of fence.
The Act of 1850 declares, “ that if any free white person shall attempt to procure a slave to commit a crime, by counsel, persuasion, bribery, force or other means, he shall be presented for such attempt, and if found guilty, shall incur the same punishment as if such free white person had attempted to commit the same crime, which he attempted to procure the slave to commit.” New Digest, 780, 781.
The offence…
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