{"petition":[{"petition_analysis_number":"21085034","petition_url":"https:\/\/dlas.uncg.edu\/petitions\/petition\/21085034","state":"Mississippi","county":"Noxubee","location_type":"County","file_day":22,"file_month":1,"file_year":1850,"filing_court":"Chancery","end_day":29,"end_month":1,"end_year":1850,"ending_court":"Chancery","result":"granted","enslaved_count":1,"fpoc_count":0,"total_people_count":3,"repository":"Noxubee County Courthouse, Macon, Mississippi","abstract":"Samuel Ussury asserts that \"Tom a slave & the property of your petitioner is unlawfully restrained of his liberty and detained in the jail of said county for a pretended criminal offence towit 'An attempt to commit a rape upon the body of Sarah J. Vaughan a free white woman & also on a charge of burglary' &c.\"  Believing Tom's \"imprisonment to be illegal,\" Ussury seeks \"a habeas corpus to discharge him from custody.\"  The court found the evidence to be insufficient \"to sustain either the charge of Burglary\" or rape and discharged Tom.","subjects":[{"subject":"Jails\/Workhouses"},{"subject":"Rape"},{"subject":"Theft by enslaved"}]}]}