Case Name: Exparte, Jesse Beown
Court: South Carolina Court of Appeals
Jurisdiction: South Carolina
Decision Date: 1831-05
Citations: 2 Bail. 323
Docket Number: 
Parties: Exparte, Jesse Beown.
Judges: 
Reporter: South Carolina Law Reports
Volume: 18
Pages: 323–323

Head Matter:
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.

Opinion:
An appeal being taken for the purpose of settling the question, his decision was confirmed, unanimously, in the Court of Appeals.