Frank v. State
Supreme Court of Alabama
Feom the Circuit Court of Benton. Tried before the Hon. Thomas A. Walker. The appellants, Frank, Jerry and Trussvan, with four other slaves, were indicted at the Spring term, 1855, of the Circuit Court of Benton, for the murder of another slave named La Fayette, otherwise called Fayette, and were tried at the same term.
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Feom the Circuit Court of Benton. Tried before the Hon. Thomas A. Walker. The appellants, Frank, Jerry and Trussvan, with four other slaves, were indicted at the Spring term, 1855, of the Circuit Court of Benton, for the murder of another slave named La Fayette, otherwise called Fayette, and were tried at the same term. The State, ou the trial, introduced evidence tending to show that tho deceased was mortally wounded by Frank with a knife, in a fight which occurred late in the evening of the Sabbath, in Benton county, not far from the house of Mrs. Woodruff; that during the fight Frank's…
1Opinion of the CourtRice, J.
(After stating the evidence above recited.) Frank is a slave ; Messrs. Bruton and Woodruff are white men. Just after the fight, Mr. Bruton met Frank. What Frank said to him, was begun by his inquiring, “how it happened.” The conversation continued until they got to the house of Mrs. Woodruff, and Mr. Bruton went in, leaving the negroes in the yard. The evidence does not show that the conversation had ended when Mr. Bruton went into the house. Upon his going into the house, Mr. Woodruff immediately came out with Mm into the yard where the negroes were, when Frank, in reply to the inquiry of…
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