Respublica v. Richards
Supreme Court of the United States
THIS was an indictment, on the 7th section of the act supplemental to the act for the gradual abolition of slavery (2 Vol. Dall.
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THIS was an indictment, on the 7th section of the act supplemental to the act for the gradual abolition of slavery (2 Vol. Dall. Edit. p. 589) which is expressed in the following words: “If any person or persons shall, from and after the passing of this act, by force or violence, take and carry, or cause to be taken and carried, or shall by fraud seduce, of cause to be seduced, any negro, or mulatto, from any part or parts of this state, to any other place, or places whatsoever, with a design and intention of selling and disposing, or of causing to be sold, or of keeping and detaining, or of…
1Opinion of the Court
The Chief Justice, after stating the counts in the indictment, and the evidence, delivered a charge to the Jury, in the following manner.
M'Kean, Chief Justice.
The severity of the punishment to be insisted in case of a conviction (a punishment the same, in its nature, as is inflicted for the most infamous crimes) ought certainly to induce the Jury to deliberate well, before they determine, that the act committed by the defendant, constitutes the offence, which is the object of the law. The extravagant operation and extent of the doctrine, on which the prosecution is maintained, ought also to…
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