State v. Banton

The judgment of the court was pronounced by

King, J.

The indictment in this case is founded on the 3d section of the act of 1819. Acts p. 62. The first count charges, that the defendant aided a slave in running away from his master; the second, that, he “did inveigle, steal, and carry away a slave named Joe, the property of Phillip Moore, so that the owner of said slave, the said Phillip Moore, was then and there deprived of the use and benefit oí his said slave” ¿tc. The jury found a general verdict of guilty. After the conviction, the Attorney General entered a nolle prosequi on the first…