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Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

Case No. 15,618.
    UNITED STATES v. LLOYD.
    [4 Cranch, C. C. 470.] 1
    Circuit Court, District of Columbia.
    Oct. Term, 1834.
    Beating Slave—Common-Law Offence.
    The owner of a slave who heats him cruelly, .•md exposes him, so beaten, to public view is iinilty of a misdemeanor at common law.
    Indictment [against Richard B. Lloyd] 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 he contended, did not state an indictable offence, and cited Turner’s Case (1827) 5 Rand. (Va.) 678, and U. S. v. Brockett [Case No. 14,651], in this court, some years ago, 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.