<petition><petition_analysis_number>11000007</petition_analysis_number><petition_url>https://dlas.uncg.edu/petitions/petition/11000007</petition_url><state>Mississippi</state><county>Adams</county><location_type>County</location_type><filing_court>unknown</filing_court><result>denied</result><enslaved_count>1</enslaved_count><fpoc_count>0</fpoc_count><total_people_count>2</total_people_count><repository>Mississippi Department of Archives and History, Jackson, Mississippi</repository><abstract>Natchez resident Richard Terrell asks for a change of venue for the trial of his slave Henry, accused by another slave of  burglary.  Convicted once but granted a new trial, Henry "cannot have anything like a fair trial" in Adams County.  The slave who accused Henry was a "man of bad fame."</abstract><subjects><subject>Trials (enslaved)</subject><subject>Testimony (enslaved)</subject><subject>Theft by enslaved</subject></subjects></petition>