<petition><petition_analysis_number>11385001</petition_analysis_number><petition_url>https://dlas.uncg.edu/petitions/petition/11385001</petition_url><state>South Carolina</state><county>York</county><location_type>District/Parish</location_type><file_day>18</file_day><file_month>11</file_month><file_year>1850</file_year><filing_court>Petition</filing_court><result>granted; allowed $200</result><enslaved_count>1</enslaved_count><fpoc_count>0</fpoc_count><total_people_count>2</total_people_count><repository>South Carolina Department of Archives and History, Columbia, South Carolina</repository><abstract>J. D. Goore seeks compensation for his slave Lewis, who was convicted and hanged for assaulting a white woman, Malinda Pollard, with intent to commit rape.  Lewis was tried before a Court of Magistrates and Freeholders on 26 July 1850 and executed 22 August 1850.  He was “appraised &amp; valued ... at the sum of two hundred dollars.”</abstract><subjects><subject>Execution (enslaved)</subject><subject>Trials (enslaved)</subject><subject>Rape</subject><subject>Assault</subject><subject>Assessed Value (enslaved)</subject></subjects></petition>