Jolly v. State
Mississippi Supreme Court
Error to cireuit court of Marshall county. Joseph Jolly was indicted for having sold spirituous liquors to a certain slave, named John, without permission of his master, etc. He was tried and found guilty, and thereupon moved for a new trial, but the motion was overruled, and exceptions taken.
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Error to cireuit court of Marshall county. Joseph Jolly was indicted for having sold spirituous liquors to a certain slave, named John, without permission of his master, etc. He was tried and found guilty, and thereupon moved for a new trial, but the motion was overruled, and exceptions taken. Armstead, a witness for the state, testified that in November, 1845, suspecting the defendant of unlawful dealings with slaves, he and several others, for the purpose of detecting him, went at night to the house of defendant, taking with them the negro man John, the slave of one of the party, and some…
1Opinion of the Court
Clayton, J.:
This is an indictment framed upon the act of 1842, made to prevent the selling of vinous or spirituous liquors to a slave without permission of his master. The defendant was found guilty in the court below, and the case comes by writ of error to this court.
The proof was, that several persons suspecting the defendant of a violation of this statute, went in the night near to his house and sent a negro belonging to one of them with money and a jug and told him to.get some whisky. The witnesses were concealed. Defendant sold the whisky to the negro.
*332Upon this state of facts, the court…
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