State v. . Shipman

The defendant was indicted with one Charles Shipman for an assault upon the person of John Maxwell, and was put alone upon his trial.

On the trial it was in evidence that the prosecutor, Maxwell, had been employed by one Holbert to manage a distillery which he had erected and was operating upon the land of defendant, with his consent; that the defendant and his son soon after the prosecutor commenced work came to- the distillery, and that defendant held several private Conversations, first with a negro who was there, and then with his son, Charles, and while the defendant was out talking with…