Case ID: del-cas_2/html/0258-01.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

STATE v. SAMUEL HANDY, free Negro.
    Court of Quarter Sessions.
    April 28, 1829.
    
      Stout's Notes.
    
    
      Rogers [for State].
    250 kegs lard [equal] $25.00
    4
    $100.00
    Property of John M. Clayton.
    1. John M. Clayton, sworn. All the kegs [of] lard my family had was taken off in the month of March last. I got back no part of the lard.
    2. Elijah McDonnel, offered. Heard Sam say he received from Pete, slave of J.M.C., a pot of lard on the green, took it to Parker’s, and he got a pair of shoes. Sam is free.
    
      3. Charles C. Emory, sworn. Heard Sam say J. M. Clayton’s boy delivered to him on the green a pot of lard, carried it to Parker’s, sold it and got a pair of shoes.
   Submitted without argument or charge. Verdict, guilty.

. Judgment. Twenty-one lashes. Pay $100. . Pay costs [of] prosecution. Sold seven years to the highest and best bidder.