Commonwealth v. Edwards

The Chief Justice

delivered the Opinion of the Court.: State. This is a proceeding against George S. Edwards, a free man of color, for an alleged violation of the Statute.of 1808, (2 Stat Law, 1219,) entitled “an act to prevent “the migration of free negroes and mulattoes to this

A jury, empannelled in the County Court, in obedience to an act of 1838 (Session Acts, 70,) requiring a jury in such cases, returned a special verdict, certifying that the accused had eminigrated to this state and settled in Maysville, prior to the enactment of 1838, and about sixteen months before the institution of…