State v. Davis

Johnson J.

delivered the opinion of the Court.

The ease made by the judge’s notes, taken on the trial, the concessions at the bar, appears to be this: Mn Griffin, a gentleman of the bar, placed in the hands of «tomes Robertson, the prosecutor, one of the deputy sheriffs of Edgefield District, a paper, purporting to a mortgage on a negro, then m the possession ot Robertson found the negro at Hamburg, and to°k him into his possession; and having occasion to stop, for the night, on his way to Edgefield, when he went to bed he chained the negro to his bed-post, and in addition to this, tied the…