Oliver v. State
Mississippi Supreme Court
Error to La Eayette circuit court. Thompson, J. George ~W. Oliver was indicted in the court below for tbe murder of bis slave, John.
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Error to La Eayette circuit court. Thompson, J. George ~W. Oliver was indicted in the court below for tbe murder of bis slave, John. It appears from tbe evidence that tbe deceased was a violent, turbulent, and rebellious slave, and that, on tbe morning of tbe 14tb of March, 1859, be, with several other slaves, was put to shelling corn on a corn-sbeller in tbe corn-crib of Oliver; that in working said corn-sbeller, a stick, about five feet long, about two-and-a-half inches in diameter at tbe large end, and gradually tapering to tbe other, was used in pushing tbe ears of corn down into tbe…
1Opinion of the Court
Harris, J.:
Plaintiff in error was indicted in the court below for the murder of his slave, and convicted of manslaughter. Many errors are assigned here, for reversal, which we do not deem it necessary to notice in the view we take of this case. • "We shall confine our opinion to the instructions complained of.
The first objection urged by the plaintiff in error to the in- ■ structions-of the court, related to the omission of the qualification, “ a/nd not m necessary self-defense,” in the latter clause of the sixth instruction given for the state. It is evident that this was the idéa intended…
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