State v. Hawkins
Supreme Court of Alabama
Error to .Mobile Circuit court. Indictment for stealing a slave, tried by Judge Pickens. This was an indictment found against the prisoner, in the Circuit court of Mobile county, for stealing a slave. There was a verdict against the prisoner, on the plea of not guilty,, and judgment pronounced against him.
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Error to .Mobile Circuit court. Indictment for stealing a slave, tried by Judge Pickens. This was an indictment found against the prisoner, in the Circuit court of Mobile county, for stealing a slave. There was a verdict against the prisoner, on the plea of not guilty,, and judgment pronounced against him. On the trial of the cause, a bill of exceptions was taken, which was as follows: “Be it remembered, that on the trial of this cause, it was proven on behalf of the State, that the defendant had taken the negro-slave, Jane, out of the possession of her master, and had attempted to place her…
1Opinion of the Court
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Ti.,: judgment, in in’s case, is founded on a statute of thin Otate, tobe found in /Jken’s Digest, 103, sec. 19. “If any person or persons, shall steal any negro or mulatto slave whatsoever, out of, or from the possession of the owner cr overseer of such slave, the person or persons so offending, arc hereby declared to be •felons, and chalí suffer death/’
The single question presented by the record, is,, whether the facts given in evidence on the trial in the court below, and from -which, under the instruction of the court, the jury found the prisoner guilty, v/eie sufficient to…
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