Parker v. Commonwealth

Judge Simpson

delivered.the opinion of the Court.

The second count in the indictment, is, in our opinion, good and sufficient. It contains substantially a charge, that the slave Clarissa did go at large and hire herself out by the permission of the plaintiff, in error, who was her owner. It is unnecessary, under the act of 1802, (2 Stat. Law, 1480,) even if necessary under the statutes of 1798, (which is at least doubtful,) to alledge in the indictment any agreement between the owner and the slave in relation to the terms upon which the permission to the slave to go at large and hire himself or…