Henry, property of Columbus D. Kinnebrew

This post is part of an ongoing project to record names of enslaved people of Greene County, Georgia I find in historical records. 

Proceedings of Greene Superior Court, March Term 1864

The State vs. Henry (a Slave)

Arson

True Bill

W. L. Strain, Foreman, W. A. Lofton, Sol. Genl., Elias B. Moody, Prosecutor

Georgia, Greene County, the Grand Jurors sworn, chosen, and selected for the county of Greene, to wit, William L. Strain, Foreman, Alfred L. Willis, Reuben J. Dawson, John Branch, Wilson S. Bishop, Jefferson F. Wright, Thomas R. Thomston, Philip Robinson, John T. Carlton, Miles G. Broome, William Armor, Isaiah Kimbrough, William N. Williams, Lorenzo D. Carlton, John A. Miller, James Perkins, William W. Brooks, William O. Cheney, William A. Reynolds, Cordial N. Daniel, John C. Merritt, William A. Colclough, in the name and behalf of the citizens of Georgia, charge and accuse a negro man slave named Henry, the property of Columbus D. Kinnebrew, with the offence of Arson. For that the said negro slave Henry in the county aforesaid on the twenty third day of February in the year eighteen hundred and sixty-four in the night time did willfully and maliciously set fire to and burn a stable the property of Elias B. Moody of said county on the farm of Thomas Hankinson and not in a city, town, or village – the same being an outhouse, contrary to the laws of said State, the good order, peace, and dignity thereof.

Greene Superior Court, March Term 1864. Elias B. Moody, Prosecutor, Wm. A. Lofton, Sol. Genl.

The Defendant waives a copy of the Indictment and list of witnesses before arraignment. March Term 1864. A. Reese, Def. Atty.

The Defendant formally arraigned and pleads not guilty. March Term 1864. W. A. Lofton, Sol. Genl.

We the Jury find Prisoner not guilty. J. W. Winfield, Foreman

Recorded this 6th day of April 1864. Isaac R. Hall, Clerk

Reference

• Greene, Special Proceedings Records 1860–1866, 1866–1870, image 196; https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3Q9M-C3M5-L3NM-6?view=explore&groupId=TH-909-81741-95149-73.