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An Act to amend the Criminal Laws of this State. 1851-1852 251 (1851)

handle is hein.slavery/ssactstn0162 and id is 1 raw text is: 251 SEC. 8. Be it enacted, That if either party to such sub- Right of Appeal mission, as is authorized by the fffth section of this act, shall desire an appeal to revise any question of law or equity arising thereon, and decided by the circuit or chancery court, he shall have remedy by an appeal, in nature of a writ of error, to the supreme court, as in other cases from the circuit court, by giving security sufficient to pay the cost of the supreme court in such cases. SEc. 9. Be it enacted, That all costs incurred in' any Eqnal costs. such trial before the circuit or chancery court, or upon any appeal, in nature of a writ of error, shall be borne equally by the parties, plaintiff and defendant. JORDAN STOKES, Speaker of the House of Representatives. M. R. HILL, Speaker of the Senate. Passed, February 24, 1852. CHAPTER CLXXIV. AN ACT to amend the Criminal Laws of this State. SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the Penalty for slave State of Tennessee, That if any slave or free person of Orson of Stat ofTenesse, Tat f an slve r fre prsonofcolor admnislue- color, shall prepare, exhibit or be accessory to the ad- in/poison. ministering of any poison, potion or medicine whatso- ever, with intent to kill any person or persons, he, she or they, so offending, shall be deemed guilty of a felony, and upon conviction, shall suffer death. SEC. 2. Be it enacted, That if any slave or free person Rape. of color, shall be guilty of the crime of rape, upon the person of any white female child, under the age of ten years, he shall suffer death for such offence, upon con- viction for the same. SEc. 3. BeC it enacted, That the 65th section of the Repeal. act of 1829, chapter 23, be, and the same is hereby re- pealed, and that from and after the passage of this act, the offences mentioned and defined in said section, of said act, shall be considered a misdemeanor, and upon conviction, shall be punished as other cases of misde- meanor, at the discretion of the court trying the same. SEC. 4. Be it enacted, That the first section of the act of 1831, chapter 81, so far as relates to negroes and malefactors, and the fourth scetion of the act of 1833, Digitized from Best Copy Available

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