Owen v. State
Supreme Court of Alabama
Appear from the Criminal Court of Dallas. Tried, before Hon. Geo. H. Craig. The appellant was indicted and convicted under § 3690 of tbe Revised Code, for decoying or persuading George Blair and Joseph Moore, apprentices of James A; Blair, to leave the service of said James A. Blair.
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Appear from the Criminal Court of Dallas. Tried, before Hon. Geo. H. Craig. The appellant was indicted and convicted under § 3690 of tbe Revised Code, for decoying or persuading George Blair and Joseph Moore, apprentices of James A; Blair, to leave the service of said James A. Blair. It appears from the bill of exceptions, that the solicitor offered on the trial to read in evidence to the jury the articles of apprenticeship of the apprentices named in the indictment, “having first clearly shown that the persons named in the indictment and in the articles of apprenticeship were the same, and…
1Opinion of the CourtPeck, C. J.
Indentures of apprenticeship made by the probate judges, under section 1450, Bevised Code, or, •as they are called in section 1453, letters of apprenticeship are to be regarded as deeds rather than records, and as the manner in which they are to be proved is not stated, before they can be read as evidence on the trial of an indictment, under section 3690, Bevised Code, for enticing, decoying or persuading an apprentice to leave the service *330or employment of his master, their execution must be proved as other deeds are proved. They clearly do not prove themselves; therefore, the objection of…
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