Prigg v. Pennsylvania
Supreme Court of the United States
IN error to the Supreme Court .of Pennsylvania. The defendant in error, Edward Prigg, with Nathan S. Bemis, Jacob Forward,and Stephen Lewis, Jr., were, indicted by the Grand Jury of Yo'rk county, Pennsylvania, for that, on the .first day of April, 1837, upon a certain negro woman named Margaret Morgan, with forcé qnd violence.they made an. assault, and with force and violence feloniously did take and carry her away from the couqty of York, within the Commonwealth of…
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IN error to the Supreme Court .of Pennsylvania. The defendant in error, Edward Prigg, with Nathan S. Bemis, Jacob Forward,and Stephen Lewis, Jr., were, indicted by the Grand Jury of Yo'rk county, Pennsylvania, for that, on the .first day of April, 1837, upon a certain negro woman named Margaret Morgan, with forcé qnd violence.they made an. assault, and with force and violence feloniously did take and carry her away from the couqty of York, within the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, to the state of Maryland, with a design and intention there to sell and dispose of the said Margaret Morgan, as…
1Opinion of the Court
'Mr. Justice Stout
delivered the opinion'of the Court.
• This is a writ of error to the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania, brought under the 25th section of the' judiciary act of 1780, ch. 20, for .the purpose of revising- the judgment of that Court, in a case involving the construction of the Constitution and laws of the United States.
The facts are briefly these: The plaintiff in error was indicted in the Court of Oyer and-Terminer for York county, for having, with force and violence, taken and carried'away from that county to the'state of Maryland, a certain négro woman, named Marga.ret Morgan,…
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