Petition #21085034

• Noxubee County, Mississippi. January 22, 1850. - January 29, 1850.
• Court: Chancery
• Salutation: To the Hon. Henry Dickinson Vice Chancellor of the State of 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.

Result: Granted.

• Number of petition pages: 3
• Related documents: PAR #21086307; Orders, 22 January 1850 and 24 January 1850; Commitment, Tom, 19 December 1849; Notices, Benjamin Morris and Sarah Vaughan, 23 January 1850 and 25 January 1850; Sheriff's Return, 25 January 1850; Writ of Habeas Corpus, 23 January 1850; Sheriff's Return, 24 January 1850; Court Record, 24 January 1850; Order, 29 January 1850
• Pages of related documents: 13

3 people are documented within petition 21085034

• 1 Enslaved
• 1 Defendant
• 1 Petitioner

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Citation information

Repository: Noxubee County Courthouse, Macon, Mississippi

• Records of the Chancery Court

Subjects

• Jails/Workhouses
• Rape
• Theft by enslaved