Aaron v. State
Supreme Court of Alabama
Feom tbe Circuit Court of Mobile, on change of venue from Baldwin. Tried before the Hon. C. W. Rapier. The prisoner, who was a slave, was indicted in the circuit court of Baldwin county, jointly with another slave by the name of Ranty, for the homicide of one Louis Boudet, a white man.
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Feom tbe Circuit Court of Mobile, on change of venue from Baldwin. Tried before the Hon. C. W. Rapier. The prisoner, who was a slave, was indicted in the circuit court of Baldwin county, jointly with another slave by the name of Ranty, for the homicide of one Louis Boudet, a white man. The indictment contained two counts; the first charging that the defendants “unlawfully and maliciously killed” said Boudet, “ by striking him with a stick, or by cutting and stabbing him with a knife or spade”; and the second charging that the killing was done “ unlawfully and voluntarily”. At the term at…
1Opinion of the CourtStone, J.
The record informs us, that copies of the indictment, and of the list of jurors summoned for the trial of the prisoner, were served on him two entire days before the day appointed for his trial. The prisoner was in actual confinement at the time. It is objected, that the service was not also upon the prisoner’s counsel, and that the papers, when served, were not read to the prisoner. There is nothing in either of these objections; the statute not requiring either of these .things to be done, unless, when the prisoner is not in actual confinement, the first named rule must be conformed to, in…
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