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Edward Prigg, Plaintiff in Error v. the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania

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  • Title: Edward Prigg, Plaintiff in Error v. the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
  • Author : United States Supreme Court
  • Release Date : January 01, 1842
  • Genre: Law,Books,Professional & Technical,
  • Pages : * pages
  • Size : 170 KB

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[Syllabus from pages 539-542 intentionally omitted] ERROR to the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania. The defendant in error, Edward Prigg, with Nathan S. Bemis, Jacob Forward and Stephen Lewis, Jr., were indicted by the grand jury of York county, Pennsylvania, for that, on the first day of April 1837, upon a certain negro woman, named Margaret Morgan, with force and violence, they made an assault, and with force and violence, feloniously did take and carry her away from the county of York, within the commonwealth of Pennsylvania, to the state of Maryland, with a design and intention there to sell and dispose of the said Margaret Morgan, as and for a slave and servant for life. Edward Prigg, one of the defendants, having been arraigned, pleaded not guilty. The cause was tried before the court of quarter sessions of York county, on the 22d day of May 1839; and the jury found the following special verdict:


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