State v. . Bond
Supreme Court of North Carolina
INDICTMENT for unlawfully trading with a slave, tried before Bailey, Judge, at the last Superior Court of Clio wan. The jury below found the following special verdict: “ That a slavej on the 10th day of October, A. D. 1855, in the night firne, about the hour of 8 o’clock, went to the shop of the defendant, where spirituous liquors, as well as other goods, were sold, and received from the hands of a slave, belonging to the defendant, a small tin bucket, containing one quart…
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INDICTMENT for unlawfully trading with a slave, tried before Bailey, Judge, at the last Superior Court of Clio wan. The jury below found the following special verdict: “ That a slavej on the 10th day of October, A. D. 1855, in the night firne, about the hour of 8 o’clock, went to the shop of the defendant, where spirituous liquors, as well as other goods, were sold, and received from the hands of a slave, belonging to the defendant, a small tin bucket, containing one quart of whiskey, which he brought out of the store, and that the defendant was not present at the time: that the defendant’s…
1Opinion of the CourtBattle, J.
The defendant was indicted for selling spirituous liquor to a slave contrary to the statute in such case made and provided. The alleged offense was found to have been committed on the 10th day of October, 1855, at a time when the testimony, which the State was able to produce, was not sufficient, in law, to justify a conviction. The 90th section of the 84th chapter of the Revised Code, which was enacted at the session of the General Assembly held in 1854, but was not to go into operation until the first day of January, 1856, provides as follows: “ Every species of unlawful trading with a…
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