THE STATE v. CLARISSA, A NEGRO SLAVE. Supreme Court of North Carolina (December Term, 1844.) 1. An indictment charging that a certain negro slave did “hire her own time, contrary to the form of the statute,” etc., is defective and must be quashed because it omits to charge one essential part of the offense, that […]
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STATE v. CLARISSA, 27 N.C. 221 (1844)
THE STATE v. CLARISSA, A NEGRO SLAVE. Supreme Court of North Carolina (December Term, 1844.) 1. An indictment charging that a certain negro slave did “hire her own time, contrary to the form of the statute,” etc., is defective and must be quashed because it omits to charge one essential part of the offense, that […]