Stephen v. State
Supreme Court of Georgia
Indictment, in Houston Superior Court. Tried before Judge Powers, October adjourned Term, 1851. At the October adjourned Term, of Houston Superior Court, held in December, 1851, the Grand Jury found true the following bill of indictment: “ The Grand Jurors, &c. in the name and behalf of the citizens of Georgia, charge and accuse Stephen, a man slave, the property of Nunn Miller, of the County and State aforesaid, with the offence of rape; for that the said Stephen, as…
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Indictment, in Houston Superior Court. Tried before Judge Powers, October adjourned Term, 1851. At the October adjourned Term, of Houston Superior Court, held in December, 1851, the Grand Jury found true the following bill of indictment: “ The Grand Jurors, &c. in the name and behalf of the citizens of Georgia, charge and accuse Stephen, a man slave, the property of Nunn Miller, of the County and State aforesaid, with the offence of rape; for that the said Stephen, as aforesaid, in the County aforesaid, on the 31st day of October, 1851, with force and arms, in and upon one Mary Daniel, the…
1Opinion of the Court
*230 By the Court.
Lumpkin, J.
delivering the opinion.
The prisoner was indicted in the Circuit Court of Houston County, for a rape on the body of Mary Daniel. On the trial, the Jury found him guilty; and this application is to reverse the judgment of the Court.
I shall endeavor, as briefly and dispassionately as I can, to investigate the numerous points made by the record. The crime, from the very nature of it, is calculated to excite indignation in every heart; and when perpetrated by a slave on a free white female of immature mind and body, that indignation becomes greater, and is more difficult…
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