Coon v. State
Mississippi Supreme Court
In error from the circuit court of Wilkinson county; Hon. Stanhope Posey, judge. William C. Coon was indicted and tried at the December term, 1848, for the larceny of Caesar, the slave of James A. Stewart. He was found guilty, and his motion for a new trial being overruled, he embodied the evidence in a bill of exceptions.
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In error from the circuit court of Wilkinson county; Hon. Stanhope Posey, judge. William C. Coon was indicted and tried at the December term, 1848, for the larceny of Caesar, the slave of James A. Stewart. He was found guilty, and his motion for a new trial being overruled, he embodied the evidence in a bill of exceptions. James A. Stewart stated that in June, A. D. 1848, he went to the jail of Wilkinson county, and found there in confinement the prisoner and his own slave Caesar, who ran away from witness’s plantation in February, A. D. 1848; and that he never gave his consent- to Caesar’s…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Smith
This was an indictment for negro-stealing. It was tried in the Wilkinson circuit court, and resulted in the conviction of the plaintiff in error.
No objection was made to the instructions given by the court, add no exception taken to the admission of any evidence which was submitted to the jury. A motion was made for a new trial, which, being overruled, a bill of exceptions was filed to the decision of the court on the motion, and the evidence spread upon the record.
The slave, who was the subject of the larceny charged, at the time of the alleged taking, was a runaway, and it is insisted that…
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