Description
Court docket indicates continuance of the case until the end of the docket, no further details. "Two distinct charges; Unable to separate due to possible inaccurate division of documents; Accused of cruelly beating, wounding, and abusing his slave Lige." "02/13/1855: Grand Jury Indictment: "The Grand Jurors of this State of Missouri for the body of the County of Platte aforesaid upon their that present that George Quimby late of said County on July 1, 1853, and on diverse other days and times between that day and the day of the finding this Indictment at the County of Platte aforesaid, did cruelly and inhumanely torture, beat, wound and abuse a certain Negro man slave named “Lige” and that said slave was there and then the property of and there and then belonging to him the said George Quimby and then and there under the charge, power, and control of him the said George Quimby contrary to the form of the Statute in such case made and provided and against the peace and dignity of the State. And the Jurors aforesaid upon their oath aforesaid do further present that the same George Quimby on March 1, 1854 at the County of Platte aforesaid did cruelly and inhumanely torture, beat, wound and abuse a certain other slave named Lige which slave last mentioned was then and there the property of an belonging to the said George Quimby and then and there under the charge, power, and control of him the said George Quimby contrary to the form of the Statute in such case made and provided and against the peace and dignity of the State.” signed James Craig, Circuit Attorney.
Missouri Archives Judicial Records Historical Database has a record and images of the case file.Date(s) of Creation
3/12/1855
