Frances v. State
Supreme Court of Florida
Appeal from Putnam Circuit Court. [The reporter has not been furnished with a copy of the record, from which to extract the evidence given in to the Jury, and must, therefore, refer to the opinion as furnishing all the facts he is enabled to give.]
1Opinion of the CourtDouglas, J.
At the fall Term of the Circuit Court for Putnam County, in the year A. D. 1853, the Grand Jury who were then and there empannelled and sworn to enquire in and for said County, found and returned into Court an Indictment, endorsed by the foreman, “ A true bill,” against Francis a Slave. She plead^Not Guilty. At the Spring Term A. D. 1854, the case came on for trial, a Jury was empannelled and sworn who returned a verdict of guilty against her.
Whereupon her Counsel moved an arrest of Judgment and for a new trial upon the following grounds.
First. That the verdict was contrary to evidence.
Second.…
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