Ex parte Morris
Supreme Court of Virginia
William W. Morris a free negro, applied by petition verified by his affidavit, to the Circuit court of the city of Richmond for a mandamus to the mayor of Richmond, to compel that officer to allow to the petitioner an apipeal from a judgment pronounced against him.
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William W. Morris a free negro, applied by petition verified by his affidavit, to the Circuit court of the city of Richmond for a mandamus to the mayor of Richmond, to compel that officer to allow to the petitioner an apipeal from a judgment pronounced against him. In his petition he stated that oil the 1st day of May 1854 he was arraigned before Joseph Mayo, the mayor of the city of Richmond, for remaining in the commonwealth contrary to law, upon the allegation that he had forfeited his right to stay therein by reason of his having once gone beyond its limits, under the 28th and 29th…
1Opinion of the CourtLee, J.
The plaintiff in error, who was a free negro, was charged before the mayor of the city of Richmond with remaining in the commonwealth contrary to law, after having forfeited his right to return to the state or remain therein, by going to a nonslaveholding state. Upon this charge he was tried, and being adjudged to have violated the law in this respect, he was required to give bond in the penaltj’ of five hundred dollars, with condition that he would leave the state within ten days. From this sentence he prayed an appeal to the Hustings court, and offered to give any security that might be…
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