Friend of Friends Friday: March Term of Quarterly Court (1859)

Alexandria Gazette (Va)
14 March 1859

PRINCE WILLIAM COUNTY COURT

The March Term of the Quarterly Court of this County, adjourned to-day. All the causes on the civil Docket, which the parties were ready to try, were disposed of.

Commonwealth vs. John Simpson, charged with Simple Larceny, was continued, a material witness against the accused being absent.

Commonwealth vs. Jim, a slave, the property of Wm. M. Lewis, charged with an assault on John Thompson, with intent to kill was tried, and Jim convicted of the offence. The Court sentenced him to sale and transportation beyond the limits of the United States, and remanded him to jail, to await the requisition of the Executive of the State.

Prince William Democrat