| "{\"id\": \"503203\", \"name\": \"STATE v. ABRAM EMORY\", \"name_abbreviation\": \"State v. Emory\", \"decision_date\": \"1796-12-01\", \"docket_number\": \"\", \"first_page\": \"67\", \"last_page\": \"68\", \"citations\": \"2 Del. Cas. 67\", \"volume\": \"2\", \"reporter\": \"Delaware Cases\", \"court\": \"Delaware Court of Quarter Sessions\", \"jurisdiction\": \"Delaware\", \"last_updated\": \"2021-08-11T00:29:20.726548+00:00\", \"provenance\": \"CAP\", \"judges\": \"\", \"parties\": \"STATE v. ABRAM EMORY.\", \"head_matter\": \"STATE v. ABRAM EMORY.\\n[Court of Quarter Sessions.] Kent.\\nDecember 1, 1796.\\nRodney\\u2019s Notes.\\nBayard [for the State]. Miller [for defendant].\\nJoshua Beauchamp. On a Sunday I saw Abram at Maxwell\\u2019s, talked to him and rode off. He called to me and asked me who told me he had threatened him. He gave me the lie and drew his fist. I jumped down and we closed. This was the last of September.\\nBedwell Maxwell surrenders up Abram, and John Anderson recognizes for him.\\nMaxwell, sworn on the voir dire, says he expected to have the fine and fees to pay in first instance but should look to Abram for repayment.\\nBayard objects to Maxwell\\u2019s examination on the ground that he is interested.\\nMiTler.\\nHe is not interested, and if he was, it appears in testimony no other person was present but black people.\\nIn the account of this case in Bayard, the name is spelled \\u201cEmery.\\u201d\\nThis case is also reported in Bayard\\u2019s Notebook, 166.\", \"word_count\": \"301\", \"char_count\": \"1669\", \"text\": \"The Court do not consider him as an incompetent witness: first, from the necessity of the case; second, his interest being remote or very small.\\nMaxwell. On Monday morning after this happened, Beau-champ rode up and said the evening before he took his negro man to see Abram. He was going to leave him, and Abram called after him. They disputed and Abram called him a liar. He then said that he struck him, Abram, with his whip and got off his horse and dragged him towards some brush etc.\\nWilliam Berry, Esq. On Sunday evening Beauchamp complained on oath that he was afraid Abram would bum his house or do .him some other injury. I issued a warrant or warrants against [Abram].\\nVerdict: guilty of an assault only, not guilty of the battery. Fined \\u00a35.\"}" |