Rawlings v. State
Court of Appeals of Maryland
Appeal from Calvert county court. The appellant was- indicted for a violation of the act of 1817, ch. 227. The indictment was as follows: “The grand jurors of the State of Maryland for Calvert «ounty, upon their oaths do present, that Richard H. Raw-lings, late of said county yeoman, on the eleventh day of January, in the year one thousand, eight hundred and forty-nine, at the county aforesaid, (the said Richard being then and there a licensed retailer,) did suffer a negro…
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Appeal from Calvert county court. The appellant was- indicted for a violation of the act of 1817, ch. 227. The indictment was as follows: “The grand jurors of the State of Maryland for Calvert «ounty, upon their oaths do present, that Richard H. Raw-lings, late of said county yeoman, on the eleventh day of January, in the year one thousand, eight hundred and forty-nine, at the county aforesaid, (the said Richard being then and there a licensed retailer,) did suffer a negro slave named Charles, the property of one John Mad, to be in his storehouse, wherein he, the said Richard, was then and…
1Opinion of the Court
Tuck, J,
delivered the opinion of the court.
The motion to dismiss this appeal having been overruled, we are now called upon to decide the various points suggested on the motion in arrest of judgment.
This indictment was found under the act of 1817, ch. 227, which prohibits licensed retailers and persons accustomed to make- and sell distilled spirits, in Calvert, St. Mary’s and Anne Arundel counties, from allowing negroes to be in their storehouses between sun-set and sun-rise, except as therein provided. The first and seventh sections contain the offence and the exceptions.
It is alleged, that…
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