State v. Hathaway

The defendant was tried on the last circuit at Edgecombe, before Pearson, Judge, for “secretly, clandestinely and fraudulently harbouring and maintaining a runaway plave, the property of one E. C.” Much testimony was offered to the jury, and certified to this Court, consisting of facts similar to the following:— That the negro had one or more places of concealment on the land of the defendant, and of declarations of the defendant, that he could have taken the negro if he…