Bob v. State

FROM the Circuit Court of Barbour. Tried before the Hon. E. W. Pettus. The prisoner was indicted for the murder of Martha L. Yining, a white child between seven and eight years old, and was convicted. The substance of the testimony adduced on the trial, as set out in the bill of exceptions, may be thus stated : The deceased was much attached to a slave woman named Dinah, and frequently followed her out into the field where the latter worked; and on the morning of the homicide had gone with her into a field, some three hundred yards from the house, where Dinah was clearing up new ground, while…