Charles v. State
Supreme Court of Alabama
In this case, Charles, a slave, was indicted in the Circuit Court of Madison, at the October term, eighteen hundred and thirty-five, thereof, for the murder of Willis Sanford : and on the twenty-ninth day of October, a day of that term, by a jury, found guilty of the offence.
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In this case, Charles, a slave, was indicted in the Circuit Court of Madison, at the October term, eighteen hundred and thirty-five, thereof, for the murder of Willis Sanford : and on the twenty-ninth day of October, a day of that term, by a jury, found guilty of the offence. The Court, after the finding, adjourned to the thirtieth, and from thence to the thirty-first, and from thence to the fourth of November, and from ■thence to the succeeding term, without rendering judgment on the verdict., At April term, eighteen hundred and thirty-six, the prisoner was brought to the bar for judgment,…
1Opinion of the CourtHopkins, J.
— On the twenty-ninth of October, eighteen hundred and thirty-five, a verdict of guilty was returned by a jury, into the Circuit Court of Madison County, against Charles, the plaintiff in error, upon an indictment for murder. The Court was adjourned on that day to the thirtieth of the -same month, on the thirtieth to the thirty-first, on the thirty-first ■ to the fourth of the next month, and on ' the last mentioned day till the next term thereof, without having given a judgment on the verdict against the prisoner, or acted upon it in any manner. Before the next term of the Court, the judge,…
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