{"petition":[{"petition_analysis_number":"20681014","petition_url":"https:\/\/dlas.uncg.edu\/petitions\/petition\/20681014","state":"Georgia","county":"Oglethorpe","location_type":"County","file_year":1810,"filing_court":"Superior","end_day":12,"end_month":3,"end_year":1813,"ending_court":"Superior","result":"partially granted; appealed; partially reversed","enslaved_count":1,"fpoc_count":0,"total_people_count":3,"repository":"Oglethorpe County Courthouse, Lexington, Georgia","abstract":"John Billups presents that he paid Richard Goolsby $325 for a slave named Jim.  Goolsby \"did covenant to warrant the said man to be Sound & well free all disasters whatever.\"  However, Jim had previously committed the crime of \"breaking open the Brandy house of Charles Hardman & taking there out brandy.\"   After the sale, he was \"arraigned before the tribunal appointed by the laws of this state for the trial of Negroe Slaves for offenses of a capital nature,\" and he was sentenced to hang.  Billups argues that, by committing the crime, \"said negroe had forfeited his life to the State and destroyed the right & power of the said Richard to convey a good & valid right & title to the said negro.\"  Billups claims $1,000 in damages.","subjects":[{"subject":"Death of enslaved (disease)"},{"subject":"Execution (enslaved)"},{"subject":"Trials (enslaved)"},{"subject":"Theft by enslaved"},{"subject":"Drunkenness"},{"subject":"Title dispute (enslaved)"},{"subject":"Warranty (enslaved)"},{"subject":"Purchase\/Sale prices (enslaved)"}]}]}