Williams v. State

Error to the Circuit Court of Marion. Before the Hon. S. Chapman. Indictment against plaintiff in error for larceny of a slave, in Fayette circuit court, and transferred by change of venue to the circuit court of Marion. The indictment contains two counts, in the first of which the plaintiff is charged thus :— “ That James Williams, late of said county, on, &c., in the county aforesaid, one slave named Albert, of the value of five hundred dollars, of the goods and chattels of John P. Taggert, then and there being found, feloniously did steal, take and lead away.” And in the second, in the…