State vs Carden Regarding Trade with a Slave 37A Packet 26

State vs Carden

Drawer 37 - A Packet 0026

Trading with a slave

THE STATE OF ALABAMA, Shelby COUNTY. IN CIRCUIT COURT Fall TERM 1857

The Grand Jury of said County charge that before the finding of this Indictment Elizabeth Carden sold to or bought or received from a slave named Charley the property of Horace Mear certain articles of Castings without the consent of the master owner or overseer of such slave verbally or in writing expressing the articles permitted to be sold to or bought or recieved from such slave first obtained

against the peace and dignity of the State of Alabama. L V B Martin Solicitor of the 3d Judicial Circuit of Alabama.

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State vs trading with Slave Elizabeth Carden

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Witnesses J.H.Ross W^m Brewer Corneleous Lathean

A true Bill William L Prentic Foreman of the Grand Jury

Filed in office sept 18^th 1857 W H Pope clerk

We the Jury find Defandant Not Gilty