Nelson v. State
Tennessee Supreme Court
Tbe prisoner, a slave, tbe property of R. H. Hyde, was indicted in tbe criminal court of Rutherford county, for tbe murder of Sam, a slave, tbe property of R. H. Spann. At tbe January Term, 1852, TurNee, Judge, presiding, tliere was a trial, when tbe following facts were proved : “ Blankenship saw Sam last, 20th of April of last year. Witness had lived with Spann two years, and worked with Sam. Sam was about thirty or thirty-two years old, and a stout man of his size.
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Tbe prisoner, a slave, tbe property of R. H. Hyde, was indicted in tbe criminal court of Rutherford county, for tbe murder of Sam, a slave, tbe property of R. H. Spann. At tbe January Term, 1852, TurNee, Judge, presiding, tliere was a trial, when tbe following facts were proved : “ Blankenship saw Sam last, 20th of April of last year. Witness had lived with Spann two years, and worked with Sam. Sam was about thirty or thirty-two years old, and a stout man of his size. Last fall two years ago, Nelson and Sam, with other negroes, were together at a corn shucking at the father’s of witness.…
1Opinion of the CourtCabutiiees, J.
The defendant, a slave of Ií. B. Hyde, was indicted and convicted in the criminal court of Rutherford county, for the murder of Sam, a slave of Richard H. Spann.
Yarious objections are here urged as errors in the proceedings below.
1. Pending the trial on the adjournment of the court for dinner, before the close of the proof of the State, the court permitted the witnesses to be discharged from *257the rule under which they had been placed, and allowed them to disperse until the meeting of the court, when they were again put under the rule. The officer having them in charge was directed by the Judge…
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