Commonwealth v. Battis
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
The defendant, John Battis, a negro of about twenty years of age, was indicted for the murder of one Salome Talbot, a while girl of the age of thirteen years, on the twenty-eighth day of Tune last.
1Opinion of the Court
The indictment contained three counts.
The 1st count charged the killing to have been with a stone, with which he beat and broke her skull, &c. The 2d stated that the killing was by drowning; and the 3d charged the killing to have been by beating and breaking her skull with a stone, and throwing her body into the water, and suffocating and drowning.
There was another indictment against the prisoner for committing *73a rape on the body of the said Salome, on the same day on which the murder was charged to have been committed.
On the second day of the term, in the forenoon, the prisoner was set to…
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