Frederick Mayberry charges that "Justice had not been done" in the trial of a slave named Anos, who was accused of assault and battery and who belongs to Henry Mayberry. The petitioner represents that Anos came to his home and "then and there did commit an assualt and batery on the body" of his 6-year-old daughter Agness. He further charges that said Anos "made an other assualt, & battery on the body of Elizabeth Mayberry she being the wife of your petitioner with an intent to kill her." He cites that the court tried Anos "for afsd offence that said Justices discharged said negro" on 21 July 1827 and that he was "taxed with the cost." Mayberry "therefore prays Your honour as the only & last remedy to remove sd cause to Your honours court ... so as a fare tryal on the cause may be had." Related documents reveal that the court found Anos "guilty of committing the assault only by abusive language with him the distance of fifty or sixty Yards of the prosecuting house ... and not Guilty of the other offenses as charged." It ruled that Anos should "receive eight lashes on his bare back and then be discharged." Henry Mayberry appealed the case to the state supreme court.
Result: Granted; appealed; reversed.
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Repository: Tennessee State Library and Archives, Nashville, Tennessee
