Randall v. State
Mississippi Supreme Court
Error to the circuit court of Jasper county. The prisoner was indicted at the November term, 1844, of the circuit court' of Jasper county, for stealing a negro, Sam, slave of William Bridges. Plea, “ not guilty.” On the trial, Wm.
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Error to the circuit court of Jasper county. The prisoner was indicted at the November term, 1844, of the circuit court' of Jasper county, for stealing a negro, Sam, slave of William Bridges. Plea, “ not guilty.” On the trial, Wm. Bridges testified, on the part of the state, that Sam, the person named in the indictment, is his slave; that he ran away from his overseer in February or March, 1844, in the county of Jasper, and remained absent about five months, when he was caught in the woods up in a tree. Martin Walker testified, on the part of the state, that in June, 1844, he met the…
1Opinion of the Court
Thacher, J.:
This vtfas an indictment in Jasper county circuit court for the larceny of a slave.
The plaintiff here claimed as error that the court below refused a new trial, though the evidence was insufficient to warrant a conviction by the jury.
It is insisted that there is no evidence of the corpus delicti. The testimony of the owner of the slave charged to have been stolen, shows that the slave had run away from his possession, and after having been absent several months, was discovered and captured by him in the woods.
It is a settled principle of law, that if one lose his goods and another…
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