Case ID: la-ann_15/html/0118-01.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "Voorhies, J.", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

State v. Joshua, a slave.
    Although the day fixed for execution by the magistrates before whom a slave has been tried for a capi - tal oironce has elapsed, pending an appeal, on the judgment being affirmed, it is the duty of the Sheriff to execute the sentence.
    PPEAL from the Justice’s Court of the Parish of St. James.
    
      T. J. Semmes, Attorney General, for the State.
   Voorhies, J.

The prisoner was found guilty of the crime of committing a rape on the person of a white woman, and sentenced to be hung' on the first Monday of August, 1859.

This judgment must bo affirmed. There is no bill of exception in tho record, nor has the defendant’s counsel filed an assignment of errors. Besides, upon an inspection of the papers, we do not perceive any error, which might have avoided the proceedings.

The day fixed for the execution of the prisoner has elapsed; but the magistrates who sat on the special tribunal, from which this appeal was taken, are referred to the following cases as a guide in this matter : State v. Jonas and Sam, 6 An. 695; State v. Oscar, 13 An. 297.

It is, therefore, ordered and decreed, that the judgment of the inferior court be affirmed.