This case is about slaves or slavery.
| Year: | 1884 |
| Citation: | 25 W. Va. 1 |
| Jurisdiction: | Maryland |
| People: | Jack Dent |
| Short Summary: | Indictment of a black defendant who argued that the prosecution had not adequately proved the intent requirement. The court held that general circumstances of the event are enoguh to prove intent. " to demonstrate the intent, than proper to be incorporated into the indictment; because that intent may be proved or illustrated by such a variety of circumstances, as it would be very inconvenient, at all times, to embody in the indictment, or place upon the record; and if the means adopted, are necessary to be stated, it would seem to follow as a necessary consequence, that all the means, however multifarious, should be explicitly averred." |
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| Full name: | State of West Virginia v. Dent |
| Court: | Supreme Court of Appeals of West Virginia |