DECREE of the Conseil du Cap, which suspends final pronouncement against a nègre who killed his wife

HAVING seen by the Conseil the criminal trial extraordinarily conducted and instructed against the man named Jacques, enslaved nègre of the sieur de Loye, prisoner held in the prisons of the Cap, for having killed the négresse named Isabelle his wife, together with all that ensued; having also seen the written conclusions of the Procureur-Général, and heard the report of M. de Silvecanne, Conseiller-Commissaire, named in this matter, the examination undergone on the stool; all of which seen and maturely considered, THE CONSEIL has suspended the final Judgment, and orders that the trial be sent to MM. the Comte de Blénac and Mithon, all at the diligence of the Procureur-Général, etc. On the account rendered by MM. the Administrators, who had approved the suspension, and after examination of the proceedings, His Majesty resolved to grant letters of pardon to the man named Jacques, killer of an adulteress.