State v. Tyson

The defendant was indicted for burning a tobacco bam and pack-house, and having been convicted appealed to this Court. The only exception relates to certain remarks of the Solicitor in his address to the jury. It was in evidence that the defendant is a colored man and had been a slave of a Mr. Tyson. He was raised on the plantation where the crime was alleged to have been committed and made his home there a greater part of his life. The prosecutor had purchased the plantation and the defendant had been his tenant. The bam which was burned was within forty or fifty yards of the Tyson dwelling,…