Judge v. State
Supreme Court of Georgia
Certiorari, from a Special Term of the Inferior Court of Houston County. Trial and decision had and made 30th of July, 1849. Certiorari refused by Judge Floyd, September, 1849. A slave, named Judge, the property of Robert Freeman, was charged with, tried, convicted and sentenced for the crime of murder.
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Certiorari, from a Special Term of the Inferior Court of Houston County. Trial and decision had and made 30th of July, 1849. Certiorari refused by Judge Floyd, September, 1849. A slave, named Judge, the property of Robert Freeman, was charged with, tried, convicted and sentenced for the crime of murder. On the trial, prisoner’s counsel objected— 1st. To the array, because a former Jury had been regularly drawn and summoned to try said negro, on the same charge, which Jury had been discharged, (and, so far as now appears, capriciously discharged.) 2d. Because the Sheriff by his return on the…
1Opinion of the Court
By the Court.
Warner, J.
delivering the opinion.
The error assigned to the decision of the presiding Judge of the Court below is, the refusal to sanction a certiorari, presented *175in behalf of the negro slave, Judge, who had been tried for the offence of murder, before the Justices of the Inferior Court of Houston County, and found guilty.
There are several grounds stated in the petition for certiorari, which appear to be sustained, by the bill of exceptions signed by the Justices of the Inferior Court.
[1.] The first ground taken in the certiorari is, that the Inferior Court discharged the first…
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