State v. King

The slave, King, having been found guilty of stabbing one Flias F Smith, a white man, with intent to kill, was sentenced to he hung, and has appealed.

The judgment must be reversed, for the following reasons:

This prosecution is under the 6th Section of the Act of 1848, p. 92, reenacted in 1885, R. S. p. 50, Sec. 4.

The same Statute is reenacted verbatim, by the Act of 19th of March 1857, and Section 43, of this last Act, declares, “ That all laws or parts of laws, conflicting with the provisions of this Act, and all laws on the same subject-matter, except what is contained in the Civil Code, or…