Petition #11685108

Abstract

Joseph Patterson “prays the general assembly of Virginia to abolish all the law for punishing people, so far as the county of Goochland is concerned for shooting caning cowhiding stabbing or throwing stones or doing any other bodily injury from one to another.” He cites as his reason the fact that “there has been three men stabbed in the county in the last four years, the first proved fatal, instantaneously he was cleared by the Magistrates, the second was a white man who stabbed a free negro and he was sent to a jury, the third was stabbed in two places which was near proving fatal was cleared by the Magistrates.”

Result: Referred to committee for courts of justice.

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Repository: Library of Virginia, Richmond, Virginia

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