Walter Chandler accused of giving alcohol to Antony

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

September Term 1854 
The State vs. Walter Chandler
Misdemeanor, Georgia, Greene County

The grand jurors sworn, chosen and selected for the county of Greene to wit, John Armstrong, foreman, John G. Holtzclaw, Jesse W. Champion, John M. Taylor, James Perkins, Wm. W. Brooks, Johnson Boswell, James T. Findley, William Terrell, Richard G. Carleton, Arch. Carleton, John Colclough, William Monfort, James A. Thornton, Lorenzo D. Carleton, John E. Jackson, Elisha Hall, Alfred M. Lansdell, John Hobens, John A. Miller, in the name and behalf of the citizens of Georgia, charge and accuse Walter Chandler of the county and state aforesaid with the offence of misdemeanor for that the said Walter Chandler in the county aforesaid on the fifteenth day of March in the year eighteen hundred and fifty-four and then and there furnished a negro man slave named Antony then and there the property of Samuel Walker with a certain quantity of rum, whisky, gin, brandy to wit one quart for his, the said slaves, own use without the knowledge or consent of the owner, overseer, or employer of said slave Antony, he the said Walter Chandler not then and there being the owner overseer or employer of said slave Antony contrary to the laws of said state, the good order, peace, and dignity thereof.

T. T. Saffold, Sol. Gen’l.
Samuel Walker, Pros.

Reference

Greene County, Georgia, Greene. Court Minutes 1844–1855, image 430, FamilySearch.