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Second Indictment of Pierre, enclosed in Smith to Stanley No. 5

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2002
Title/Headline:
Second Indictment of Pierre, enclosed in Smith to Stanley No. 5
Publication/reference number:
CO 101/78
Date:
1833
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Pages:
29-30
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"In the Supreme Court of Judicature Grenada to wit the Jurors for our Lord the King upon their oath – present that one Pierre of the Parish of Saint David in the Island of Grenada being an Obeah Man and a Person of an evil disposed mind and pretending to have communication with the Devil and other evil spirits on the second day of October in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and thirty three and in the fourth year of the Reign of our Sovereign Lord William the Fourth with force and arms, at the Parish and Island aforesaid feloniously did prepare and give and cause to be given a certain noxious drug composed of Conch Shell Rum and Honey in the practice of Obeah to a certain slave named Boy attached to La Sagesse Estate in the said Island against the form of the statute of the said Island in such case made and provided and against the peace of our said Lord the King his Crown and Dignity.

And the Jurors aforesaid upon their oath aforesaid do further present that the said Pierre on the said second day of October in the said year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and thirty three and in the fourth year of the reign of our Sovereign Lord William the Fourth with force and arms at the parish and Island aforesaid feloniously did cause to be given a certain Noxious Drug in the practice of Obeah to the said slave named Boy against the form of the statute of the said Island in such case made and provided and against the peace of our said Lord the King his Crown and Dignity.

And the Jurors aforesaid upon their oath aforesaid do further present that the said Pierre on the said second day of October in the said year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and thirty three and in the fourth year of the reign of our sovereign Lord William the fourth with force and arms, at the parish and Island aforesaid feloniously had in his possession Materials known by the name of Obeah the same being notoriously used in the practice of Obeah or Witchcraft and state of Evident preparation for carrying on such dangerous and nefarious practice against the form of the statute of the said Island in such case made and provided and against the peace of our said Lord the King his Crown and Dignity.

And the Jurors aforesaid upon their oath aforesaid do further present that the said Pierre on the said second day of October in the said year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and thirty three and in the fourth year of the reign of our sovereign Lord William the fourth with force and arms, at the parish and Island aforesaid feloniously did cause to be given certain Deleterious Matter commonly called Obeah in the practice of Obeah to the said Slave named Boy against the form of the statute of the said Island in such case made and provided and against the peace of our said Lord the King his Crown and Dignity.”

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