Case ID: dc_4/html/0470-01.html
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Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

United States v. Richard B. Lloyd.
    The owner of a slave who beats him cruelly, and exposes him, so beaten, to public view, is guilty of a misdemeanor at common law.
    Indictment for beating his own slave Henry,"cruelly, and exposing him, so beaten, to public view.
    Verdict guilty, and amerced by the jury $100.
    
      Mr. Brent, for the defendant,
    moved in arrest of judgment, because the indictment, as be contended, did not state an indictable offence, and cited Richard Turner’s case, in 1826, 5 Rand. 178, 678, and United States v. Brockett, in this Court, some years ago, (2 Cranch, C. C. 441,) for cruelly beating his own slave.
    He also moved for a new trial, on the ground of misdirection by the Court to the jury; and because the verdict was against evidence.
   The Court

overruled both motions, and rendered judgment for the amount assessed by the jury.