Harnett-Cumberland County NcArchives News..... Superior Court  Decisions October 16, 1856
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16 Nov. 1856   North Carolina Argus October 16, 1856
      SUPERIOR COURT DECISIONS
   The Superior Court of Law and Equity for the Counties of Cumberland and 
Harnett has been in Session during the present week. Nearly the whole of the 
Term has been taken up with the Criminal Docket. A part of Tuesday and the 
whole of Wednesday were devoted to the trial of RACHEL FREEMAN, a free girl of 
color, on a charge of arson. The jury returned a verdict of guilty. For the 
State, MR. SOLICITOR STRANGE; for the prisoners, MESSERS WILLIAM B. WRIGHT and 
JOSEPH BAKER, JR.
  The next business on the calendar was an application of three prisoners from 
Bladen, charged with a cappital offence, to be admitted to bail. They were 
represented bgy JOHN A. RICHARDSON, ESQ., whose efforts to obtain bail were 
ineffectual. The prisoners were remanded.
  JACKSON EVANS was then put on his trial for a homicide on the body of JOSEPH 
WILLIAMS, both free men of color. A verdict of manslaughter has been returned.

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