North Carolina, Superior Court, Halifax : State v Weaver, March 1798.

Weaver killed a slave, Lewis, whom he had hired for a year, and was indicted for murder. The appeal court determined that the distinctions of provocation and malice aforethought between murder, manslaughter and justifiable homicide were different in the case of a free man having been killed as compa...

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Corporate Author:	Adam Matthew Digital (Firm) (digitiser.)
Format:	Electronic eBook
Language:	English
Series:	Slavery, abolition & social justice.
Subjects:	Court records Enslaved persons > Social conditions Trials (Assault and battery)
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