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

Case No. 15,863.
    UNITED STATES v. NELSON.
    [4 Cranch, C. C. 579.] 
    
    Circuit Court, District of Columbia.
    Oct. Term, 1835.
    Slave—Punishment for Laiicenv.
    A slave, convicted of larceny, is to be punished by whipping, although not charged as a slave in the indictment.
    The prisoner [negro Nelson] was convicted of stealing a hair cap, of the value of one dollar and twenty-five cents. It appears, in evidence, that he was a slave, although not charged as such in the indictment.
   THE COURT

(nem. eon.) sentenced the prisoner to be whipped with twenty stripes.