Petition #21284804

• Robeson County, North Carolina. March 23, 1848. - June 21, 1848.
• Court: Superior
• Salutation: To the Honorable one of the Judges of the Superior courts of Law & Equity in & for the State aforesaid

Abstract

John O. Daniel seeks a writ of habeas corpus for his slave Robert who is accused of murdering a free man of color named Henry Pink Humphreys and is now imprisoned.

Result: Granted.

• Number of petition pages: 2
• Related documents: Oath, John O. Daniel, 23 May 1848; Copy of Warrant of Commitment, 20 May 1848; Jury Verdict, September 1848; Order, 21 June 1848; Bond, 21 June 1848; Depositions, Duncan McNair, Lewis Hunt, and Sealy, a Slave, 20 May 1848; Order, 1 June 1848
• Pages of related documents: 12

5 people are documented within petition 21284804

• 1 Free person of color
• 2 Enslaved
• 1 Petitioner
• 1 Other

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Citation information

Repository: North Carolina Department of Archives and History, Raleigh, North Carolina

• Records of the County Court, Slaves and Free Persons of Color

Subjects

• Jails/Workhouses
• Trials (enslaved)
• Testimony (enslaved)
• Right to carry (enslaved)
• Homicide
• Assault