Cropper v. Commonwealth
General Court of Virginia
Flkaaey Cropper, a free woman of col-our, was tried, on the 29th of March 1843, by a court of oyer and terminer held by five justices of Accomac county, upon a charge of having, on the tenth day of the same month, feloniously stolen, taken and carried away one cotton shirt and one pair of socks. The entry of the judgment was in the following terms: “It is the unanimous opinion of the court that the prisoner is guilty of the crime aforesaid.
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Flkaaey Cropper, a free woman of col-our, was tried, on the 29th of March 1843, by a court of oyer and terminer held by five justices of Accomac county, upon a charge of having, on the tenth day of the same month, feloniously stolen, taken and carried away one cotton shirt and one pair of socks. The entry of the judgment was in the following terms: “It is the unanimous opinion of the court that the prisoner is guilty of the crime aforesaid. And it appearing to the court that she has heretofore been tried, convicted, and punished by confinement in the penitentiary for the crime of petit…
1Opinion of the CourtDuncan, J.
By the ninth section of the act passed the 15th of March 1832, (Acts of 1831-2, ch. 22, p. 22; Suppl. to Rev. Code, ch. 187, p. 247,) free negroes and mulattoes committing simple larceny to the value of 20 dollars or less, are to be tried and punished in the same manner as slaves are directed to be tried and punished by the fifth section of the act passed the 12th of February 1828 (Acts of 1827-8, ch. 37, p. 30; Suppl. to Rev. Code, ch. 183, p. 242). The mode of trial, and the nature of the punishment, of free negroes 844 and mulattoes *for simple larceny to the value of 20 dollars or less,…
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