James Wallis, "a minister of Religion," represents that he went to the widow's house "to apportion off some of the negro property of the late Doct. William Morrison," in his capacity as Morrison’s executor. He relates that, following "the business ordered by the court," several intoxicated men began quarreling. Noting that the widow requested that he "have them put of the house," Wallis intervened and thereby was charged and convicted of assault and fined fifty pounds. The petitioner denies any wrongdoing and argues that two persons, "who were considered as most deeply implicated were brought to trial and acquitted." He therefore "hopes to obtain from the Legislature of the State that relief which it alone is competent to afford."
Result: Rejected.
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Repository: North Carolina Department of Archives and History, Raleigh, North Carolina
