UPSON COUNTY, GA - COURT  Clark W. Upson-
Simon S. Oslin-Wm Mabry  1856

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May adjourned Term 1856

Misdemeanor


The State

Vs.

Clark W. Upson

Simon S. Oslin


The State of Georgia Upson County

The Grand Jurors sworn, chosen & selected
for the County of Upson to wit: __ Rogers
foreman, Thomas W. Rivier, John S. Jackson,
James Harrell, Miles R. Meadows, John N.
Howell, Calvin M. Mitchell, James M. Barron,
William Stephens, __ C. P__, Jordan Lyons,
Peter Holloway, Benjamin G. McKenny, Allen
B. Mallory, James Anderson, Washington
Hartsfield, Benjamin B. White, Alexander S.
Brooks, Butler B. King, in the name & behalf
of the citizens of Georgia charge & accuse
Clark W. Upson & Simon S. Oslin of the
County & State aforesaid with the offence of
misdemeanor. 

For that the said Clark W.
Upson & Simon S. Oslin, in the County
aforesaid on the twenty sixth day of May in
the year of our Lord one thousand eighty
hundred & fifty six with force & arms at the
town of Thomaston in the County aforesaid
the graveyard of & belonging to the said
town of Thomaston there __, unlawfully &
willfully did brake & enter, & the grave
then & there in which the dead body of a
negro man slave named William, (the property
while living of one Hillard B. Mabry), had
lately before that time been interred & then
& there was - with force & arms without the
consent then & there of the said Hillard B.
Mabry the said master of the said negro man
slave William while living & without the
consent then & there of the said negro man
slave William deceased, did then & there
unlawfully, wilfully & indecently dig open &
then & there the dead body of him the said
negro man slave William out of the grave
aforesaid without the consent of the said
Hillard B. Marby the said master of the said
negro man slave William while living &
without the consent then & there of the
friends of the said negro man slave William
deceased, did then & there unlawfully &
wilfully take, carry away & remove for the
purpose of dissecting & selling the same,
the said body of the said negro man slave
William being then & there the dead body of
a human being, & the said negro man slave
William deceased not being then& there at
the time of his death & interment a
malefactor, executed under sentence of law,
contrary to the laws of sais State the good
order peace & dignity thereof. 

 And the
Jurors aforesaid in the name & behalf of the
citizens of Georgia further charge & accuse
the said Clark W. Upson & Simon S. Oslin
with having committed the offence of
removing a dead body of a human being from
the grave. 

For that the said Clark W. Upson
& Simon S. Oslin on the twenty sixth day of
May in the year of our Lord one thousand
eight hundred & fifty six from a grave in
the graveyard at & belonging to the town of
Thomaston in the County of Upson in said
State did remove the dead body of a certain
negro man slave named William, the said dead
body of the said negro man slave William
being then & there the dead body of a human
being without consent then & there of the
friends of the said negro man slave William
deceased, the said negro man slave William
deceased not being a malefactor executed
under sentence of the law contrary to the
laws of said State the good order peace &
dignity thereof.


Upson Superior Court adjourned Term 1856

(Signed) James R. Lyons Sol.,. __ Hillard B. Mabry Prosecutor