
    STATE v. JAMES TINDLE, free Negro.
    Court of Quarter Sessions. Kent.
    April 28, 1829.
    
      Stout’s Notes.
    
    
      Rogers [for State]. P.P. [for defendant].
    In stealing a blanket value [$]1.00
    2-fold
    [$]2.00
    Property of James C. Jackson.
    1. James C. Jackson, sworn. I lost a woolen blanket the latter part of last October. James Tindle acknowledged he took it; its worth $1.00. James Tindle is a free man. I got my blanket again.
    1. Elijah Douglass, Negro, sworn, witness for defendant.
    2. Nancy Douglass, sworn.
   Submitted without argument or charge. Verdict, guilty.

Judgment, $2 — twofold. Twenty-one lashes. Pay costs of prosecution. Sold seven years to any person or persons.  