Lindsay v. State

The charge in the indictment in this easels, that the defendant sold “ to one Henry,, a slave, the property of one Maria Herron, a certain commodity, to-wit, one gallon of whiskey, without the consent of the master, owner or overseer of said slave, either verbally or in writing, expressing the article-permitted -to be sold, being first had and obtained.”

The defendant contends that the indictment is not good, because it was framed under the act of 1841-, which was repealed by the act, “the more effectually to suppress the evil practice-of trading with slaves,” passed in 1850. We think that the…