Amos v. State
Supreme Court of Georgia
Indictment for Eurnishing a Slave with Spirituous Liquors. In Talbot Superior Court. Tried before Judge Wobbill. March Term, 1866. The error alleged in this case, is the refusal of the Court to grant a new trial on the ground that the verdict was contrary to law and to evidence, and ¿that the Court erred in charging the jury. The indictment was found at March Term, 1864, and laid' the offence, on the first of the preceding 'January.
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Indictment for Eurnishing a Slave with Spirituous Liquors. In Talbot Superior Court. Tried before Judge Wobbill. March Term, 1866. The error alleged in this case, is the refusal of the Court to grant a new trial on the ground that the verdict was contrary to law and to evidence, and ¿that the Court erred in charging the jury. The indictment was found at March Term, 1864, and laid' the offence, on the first of the preceding 'January. It described the negro as a man slave, the name and residence of whom were to the jurors unknown. The evidence was that Ira T. Oox, the witness, went to the store…
1Opinion of the CourtWalker, J.
The defendant was tried for the offence of furnishing whisky to a slave for his own use, and was convicted. He insists that a new trial should have been granted, because the proof failed to show that the negro wás a slave, or if a slave, to whom he belonged; and failed to show that he did not belong to defendant. “All negroes and mulattoes are deemed prima, fade slaves, and it rests upon those alleging freedom to prove it.” Code, sec. 1600. In this case there was no evidence that the negro was free.
By the Oode, sec. 4491, no owner or any other person whatsoever shall sell or furnish any slave…
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