Bob v. State
Supreme Court of Alabama
[INDICTMENT AGAINST SLAVE EOR ASSAULT WITH INTENT TO KILL WHITE PERSON.] Appeal from the Circuit Court of Choctaw. Tried before the Hon. C. "W. Bapieb. The prisoner’ in this, case, who was a slave, was indicted for an assault with intent to kill one Thomas Curtis, a white person. The indictment was found at the March term, 185T, and a mistrial was had at the same term.
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[INDICTMENT AGAINST SLAVE EOR ASSAULT WITH INTENT TO KILL WHITE PERSON.] Appeal from the Circuit Court of Choctaw. Tried before the Hon. C. "W. Bapieb. The prisoner’ in this, case, who was a slave, was indicted for an assault with intent to kill one Thomas Curtis, a white person. The indictment was found at the March term, 185T, and a mistrial was had at the same term. A second trial was had at the March term, 1858, which resulted in a verdict of guilty, and consequent conviction and sentence of death. On this last trial, the following bill of exceptions was reserved in behalf of the…
1Opinion of the CourtWalker, J.
The master and mistress of the accused, their son, and several of the neighbors, were assembled in the house of the slave’s master. The purpose of the *565assembly was to compare the size of the feet and shoes of tbe master’s slaves, with the measure of tracks which, as the evidence conduced to show, had been made by the perpetrator of the crime. The accused was called into the assembly, and the measure was applied to his shoes. There being a perfect correspondence between them, several of the assembly exclaimed, that they were the shoes of the person who made the tracks, and the accused was…
2Cases cited5 opinions
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- Wyatt v. StateSupreme Court of Alabama · 1854
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