Lewis v. State
Supreme Court of Alabama
Error to the Circuit Court of Talladega. Tried before the Hon. Nat. Cook. The indictment in this case charged, that the prisoner, “ Lewis, a slave, the property of Henry Harless,attempted to commit a rape on Mary C. Ozley, a white female and was found at the spring term, 1857, of the circuit court of Shelby. The venue was changed, on the prisoner’s application, to Talladega county, where the trial was had, at the fall term, 1859, on the plea of not guilty.
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Error to the Circuit Court of Talladega. Tried before the Hon. Nat. Cook. The indictment in this case charged, that the prisoner, “ Lewis, a slave, the property of Henry Harless,attempted to commit a rape on Mary C. Ozley, a white female and was found at the spring term, 1857, of the circuit court of Shelby. The venue was changed, on the prisoner’s application, to Talladega county, where the trial was had, at the fall term, 1859, on the plea of not guilty. The rulings of the court on the trial are thus stated in the bill of exceptions: “ It was proved, that Mr. Ozley, the father of the young…
1Opinion of the CourtStone, J.
Michael Busby and George Harless were examined as witnesses in the trial of this cause; the former for the prosecution, and the latter for the defense. An attempt was made to discredit Busby, by proving that in his deposition before the committing magistrate, he had made statemeuts contradictory of his testimony on the trial in chief. As a predicate for introducing the deposition, the witness Busby was asked as to his former testimony, which he admitted. On re-examination, he was asked why lie had testified as his deposition disclosed, and answered, that George Harless, the other witness» had…
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