Ricks v. State
Supreme Court of Georgia
Misdemeanor, in Bryan Superior Court. Tried before Judge Fleming, December Term, 1851. This was an indictment for buying cotton from a slave, without permission.
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Misdemeanor, in Bryan Superior Court. Tried before Judge Fleming, December Term, 1851. This was an indictment for buying cotton from a slave, without permission. It appeared, by the testimony of William L. Walthour, that, having reason to suspect the defendant of purchasing cotton from his father’s slaves, he had furnished- one of them with a quantity of cotton -and sent him to defendant’s house, while he went to watch their proceedings: that defendant bought the cotton from the negro, paying him in liquor and tobacco; witness heard them also talk of a former transaction of the same kind, and…
1Opinion of the Court
By the Court.
Benning J.
delivering the opinion.
By the thirteenth section of the thirteenth division of the ■ Penal Code, it is made a crime for any person to buy or receive, from any slave, “any cotton” as well as various other articles, “ without written permission from the owner, overseer or employer of such slave, or some other person authorized to give such-permission, authorizing such slave to sell and dispose of said money or other article or articles”. (Cobb Dig. 827.)
(1.) According to these words, nothing but written permission can justify the buying or receiving of cotton from a slave.
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