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<b>714. SLAVE MURDER TRIAL </b>A great archive of five Georgia Supreme Court documents, mostly folio format, related to the murder of a Mrs. Peggy Saddler by a slave named Hill, 13pp. in all, Decatur Ga., April, 1859. These documents give an official look at a horrifying nighttime attack upon a mother and her young children by a gang of slaves resulting in the mother's murder. Hill alone was singled out for the crime. Includes a list of the jurors selected for the trial, the court's brief of evidence against Hill, with a character witness's defense statement, an acknowledgment that the state supreme court agreed to retry the case, the court's guilty finding against Hill, and the court's request of Sheriff Harell to present Hill at the gallows to be executed. The supreme court brief of evidence shows the brutality of the crime, in very small part: <i>"...The first I knew of anybody coming there...was after we had all gone to bed...I heard...someone at the door...said they were going to kill us all...Hill...came in the house...mother said to the one holding her `if you let me go. I will give you a pretty'...he said `I don't want any of you pretties' and then they all commenced fighting...I found Peggy in the yard lying down badly wounded all over the head...In the yard there looked to be some Gal. or so of blood...I saw Hill...on Monday...in his masters field and found blood all over him...[Hill] has been as far as I knew a very humble and obt. boy...</i>". With such damning evidence against Hill, the court had no other choice but to return a verdict of guilty, in part: <i>"...on this nineteenth day of August 1859...that you Hill, a slave be taken...to the common jail...and be there safely kept until Friday the 9th day of September next and that on said day that you be taken...to the gallows within one mile of the Court House...[and] hung by the neck until you are dead...</i>". With the verdict officially returned, Sheriff Harell received this request in September, in part: <i>"...You are hereby commanded to bring the body of the said Hill a slave before me in the Court House...at the hour of 10 o'clock A.M. to be re-sentenced for execution...</i>". A great look into antebellum justice. Minor soiling, else good to very good.<b>$1,500-2,000</b>
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