State v. George

The accused, who is the slave of.Lewis Covington, has been charged with wilfully and maliciously striking Collins-worth, the overseer of his owner, causing a contusion and shedding of blood. Upon this accusation he was tried by the parish judge and six freeholders of the parish of Tensas, where the crime is alleged to have been committed, convicted and sentenced to suffer death. Covington, the owner of the slave, has appealed from this judgment, asking that it be reversed, and the case remanded for a new trial, for the several reasons stated in bills of exceptions taken to the rulings of the…