This case is about slaves or slavery.
| Year: | 1827 |
| Citation: | 26 Va. 660 |
| Jurisdiction: | General Ct of VA |
| People: | Armistead |
| Short Summary: | from the opinion: "a negro slave is a person on whom a free person may commit the offence of malicious or unlawful shooting, stabbing, &c. under the act against those offences, passed 9th February, 1819." |
| Law type: | First-degree murder |
| Full name: | The Commonwealth v. William Carver |
| Court: | Virginia General District Court |