State v. Cooper

On the petition of Cooper, a man of colour, the Circuit Court, at the November term, 1834, issued a writ of habeas corpus, requiring Charles T. Noble to bring the petitioner before the Court, together with the cause of his detention. The return to the writ states,-that Cooper had been taken before a justice, &c., and that, on his failing to *259give bond, &c., the justice ordered that he should be hired out for six months. It also states, that the overseers of the poor, in pursuance of the justice’s order, on the thii'd of November, 1834, hired Cooper to Noble for six months. The Circuit Court…