Crim v. State
Supreme Court of Alabama
From Circuit Court of Franklin. Tried before Hon. James S. Clarke. George Crim alias Johnson, James Steel, and Daniel Allen, freedmen, were indicted at the fall term, 1868, of Franklin circuit court, for arson.
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From Circuit Court of Franklin. Tried before Hon. James S. Clarke. George Crim alias Johnson, James Steel, and Daniel Allen, freedmen, were indicted at the fall term, 1868, of Franklin circuit court, for arson. The indictment charges, that the defendants “willfully and in the night-time, set fire to, and burned a certain female seminary, or college, or academy, a certain building erected for public use, the property of William Cooper, which, with the property therein contained, was of the value of five hundred dollars or more,” against the peace and dignity, &c. The defendants were tried…
1Opinion of the CourtPeters, J.
This is an appeal from Eranklin circuit court. At the fall term of the circuit court of Eranklin county, in this State, in the year 1868, the defendants in the court below, the said Orim and two others, were indicted for arson. The case was tried on the 22d day of December, of the same year, before the judge of the fourth judicial circuit, when the said defendants were convicted on verdict, and condemned to imprisonment in the penitentiary for seven years, each. Upon the trial, it appears from a bill of exceptions, which is made a part of the record, that the defendants are freedmen, and that…
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