Case ID: scl_18/html/0323-01.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
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Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

Exparte, Jesse Beown.
    A slave cannot be twice tried and punished for the same offence.
    A slave had been tried and convicted by a' court of magistrates and free-holders, and sentenced to be whipped; and the sentence was executed. He was subsequently tried and condemned to death for the same offence; and Mr. Justice Richaedso'n, whilst on the Western Circuit, Spring Term, 1831, granted a prohibition to restrain the execution of the sentence.
   An appeal being taken for the purpose of settling the question, his decision was confirmed, unanimously, in the Court of Appeals.