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The Daily Dispatch: December 12, 1860., [Electronic resource], Congressional debate, Monday. (search)
r trial, and plead not guilty. The Court, when the cause was fully heard, pronounced the prisoner guilty of the offence, and sentenced him to receive thirty and nine stripes. Thomas, slave of Charles H. Jones, charged with receiving of Woodson, a slave, a gold watch stolen from Alexander Nott on the 1st inst., knowing the same to have been stolen, was arraigned for trial and plead not guilty.--The Court, on hearing the cause, decided him to be guilty, and sentenced him to receive nine and thirty stripes. Woodson, slave to Charles H. Jones, charged with stealing a gold watch from Alexander Nott on the 1st inst., was tried, found guilty by the Court, and sentenced to receive thirty-nine stripes. In the case of Commonwealth against Jackson Crouch, Allen McGregor and Alfred Wright, charged with assaulting Justice Geo. E. Sadler, a rule was awarded against several witnesses, to show cause why they should not be attached for contempt of Court, in not appearing when called.