Chambers v. State
Supreme Court of Alabama
Appeal from tbe Circuit Court of Perry. Tried before the Hon. Aiídrew B. Moore. The indictment in this case, which was found at the Fall term, 1852, charged “ that John Chambers, late of said county of Perry, on the first day of October, A. D. 1852, at, to-wit, in said county, did unlawfully then and there fail to procure license therefor, and did then and there engage in the business of negro-trading without such license, and did then and there unlawfully exhibit for sale…
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Appeal from tbe Circuit Court of Perry. Tried before the Hon. Aiídrew B. Moore. The indictment in this case, which was found at the Fall term, 1852, charged “ that John Chambers, late of said county of Perry, on the first day of October, A. D. 1852, at, to-wit, in said county, did unlawfully then and there fail to procure license therefor, and did then and there engage in the business of negro-trading without such license, and did then and there unlawfully exhibit for sale divers, to-wit, twenty negro slaves, contrary to the form of the statute,” &c. On the trial, “ the State introduced and…
1Opinion of the CourtChilton, C. J.
— The State having proved, by an examination in chief, that the defendant, in July, 1852, having possession of four slaves in the county of Perry, told the witness they were for gale, and offered to sell them to him, and that thereupon a bargain was strucb-ior two of them, which the defendant delivered to said witness in Marengo county,— the defendant offered to prove by the same witness, upon his cross-examination, that the defendant said, in the same conversation, and at the same time he told the witness that the slaves were for sale, that he (the defendant) was not engaged in the business…
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