Hamilton v. State
Mississippi Supreme Court
“Error to circuit court of Adams' county. Posey, J. Cited, The State v. Hawkins, 8 Porter, 461. Cited, Bandal v. State, 4 S. & M.; Coon v. State, 13 ib., 249,
1Opinion of the Court
Handy, J.:
The plaintiff in error was indicted and convicted, in the Adams circuit court, for stealing a slave.
The evidence in support of the indictment, offered on the trial, was to the following effect:
John A. McGill testified that the slave was his property, and that he left his plantation about the 12th of March, 1856 ; that his overseer had given the slave a pass to go to St. Joseph, Louisiana, on the steamer Princess, witness being at St. Joseph at the time, but that the slave did not go there; that the ac*1090cused, before tbe slave left, was employed by witness on his plantation as a clerk,…
2Cases cited1 opinion
- State v. HawkinsSupreme Court of Alabama · 1839
3Cited by10 opinions
- Dedeaux v. StateMississippi Supreme Court · 1921
- Foust v. StateIndiana Supreme Court · 1928
- State v. AllenUtah Supreme Court · 1920
- Harbin v. StateMississippi Supreme Court · 1981
- Littlejohn v. StateMississippi Supreme Court · 1881
5 more not listed; retrieve them via the Exa API.