Supreme Court of North Carolina December 5, 1827 (State v. . Johnson)

Tayeok, Chief Justice.

1Tiie act of 1825, on which this indictment is framed, is amendatory of the act of 1792, on th>' same subject — the principal defect of which seems to have been, that it made it criminal, only in tlie master or commander of any ship or vessel trading within this State, to carry out of this State, or to- conceal on board for that purpose, any slave the property of a citizen