Alexander v. State
Texas Supreme Court
Appeal from Harrison. Indictment for larceny of a slave, the goods and chattels of one John Coleman, in the ordinary form, contrary to the form of the statute, &c.
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Appeal from Harrison. Indictment for larceny of a slave, the goods and chattels of one John Coleman, in the ordinary form, contrary to the form of the statute, &c. The evidence tended to'prove that Coleman having discovered the intention of the defendant to steal the slave, interposed no obstacle, and perhaps directed the slave to encourage the theft, and learning from the slave the road the defendant designed to take, intercepted the defendant and the slave as they were pursuing their way, about a half hour after dark, out of the town of Marshall, where the owner resided, in the direction of…
1Opinion of the CourtWheeler, J.
It will suffice for the disposition of this case, to notice briefly the principal grounds relied on for a reversal of the judgment as presented by the record, without dwelling to examine and discuss the various views of the questions in the case, which the very elaborate and ingenious argument of counsel for the appellant has presented.
It is objected to the judgment that the indictment, being in the common form for larceny, is not sufficiently descriptive of the facts necessary to constitute the larceny of a slave ; and it is insisted, that the Act of the 21st of December, 1836, having…
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