Louisa
Item
- Title
- Louisa
- Source
- Daily Dispatch {VA}
- Date
- 1880-03-25
- page
- 2
- Identifier
- https://www.loc.gov/resource/sn84024738/1880-03-25/ed-1/?sp=2
- Crime
- Theft
- Subject
- Petty Theft; Theft; Murder
- Race of alleged offender
- Black alleged offender
- Gender of alleged offender
- Female alleged offender
- Stage of the Legal System
- Sentencing
- Location
- In-State; Louisa; VA
- Length of story
- 93 words
- Description
-
Circuit Court has been in session here since Monday, and has been mostly occupied with criminal matters. The Commonwealth's attorney entered a nolle prosequi in the case of Eliza Jackson (colored), charged with being an accomplice in the Walton murder. His Honor. Judge Barton, upon discharging the prisoner told her that while the evidence indicated her guilt of a series of petty
thefts (referring to the articles found in her house which came from the store of the deceased) that he did not believe her guilty of the crime wherewith she was charged.
