This case is about slaves or slavery.
| Year: | 1883 |
| Citation: | 59 Md. 264 |
| Jurisdiction: | Maryland |
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| Short Summary: | Dealing of the Constitutionality of corporal punishment by means of whipping. Defendant arguing that whipping is a "cruel and unusual punishment" since the abolition of slavery. The court held that since the legislature consistently did not include whipping in a class that was forbidden by law, for slaves as well as to whites. Note that the race of the defendant is never mentioned. |
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| Full name: | Charles Foote vs. State of Maryland |
| Court: | Court of Appeals of Maryland |