State v. . Groves
Supreme Court of North Carolina
The prisoner was indicted under the 10th section of 34th chapter of the Rev. Statutes, for the offence of stealing and carrying away a woman slave, the property of one Blackwell. The indictment contained several counts, in which the felony was differently alleged to have been committed, as by stealing, violence, seduction, and done with the different intents mentioned in the Act.
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The prisoner was indicted under the 10th section of 34th chapter of the Rev. Statutes, for the offence of stealing and carrying away a woman slave, the property of one Blackwell. The indictment contained several counts, in which the felony was differently alleged to have been committed, as by stealing, violence, seduction, and done with the different intents mentioned in the Act. The indictment was found in the county of Wayne, and there the venue was laid ; and the case having been removed to the county of Sampson, was tried before his Honor Judge Dick, at Spring Term, 1853, of the Superior…
1Opinion of the CourtPearson, J.
His Honor was of opinion that if the prisoriei* had “ feloniously possessed himself” of the slave in anothér county, and had afterwards carried her into the county of Wayne, he could be convicted in the latter county.
The Statute under which the prisoner is indicted has been frequently before this Court, and has been discussed at great length in reference to its construction in many particulars; but this is the first time that a construction has been called for in regard to the venue, or county in which the offender may be prosecuted. Its construction being settled in so many particulars,…
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