Ex parte Vaughan
Supreme Court of Alabama
This was an application to the court by Fielding Vaughan for bail, the same having been refused by the judge of the criminal court of the county of Dallas. The facts, which were agreed on in the court below, are all set out in the opinion.
1Opinion of the CourtB. F. Saffold, J.
The evidence in the case is the record of the indictment for murder, and a statement of facts agreed to by the prisoner, as follows :
The killing occurred in Dallas county, on the 2d of April, 1865. The prisoner is a white man, and the person slain was a colored man, occupying the status at that time of the *418colored people of the State, who were heretofore slaves, but are now free.
We do not desir.e to commit ourselves against any defense which the prisoner may deem available to him on his trial, but we would be loth to hold that there had been any time, in the history of the State, when the…
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