DECREE of the Conseil of Cap against a free mulâtre who had raised his hand against a white man

Having seen by the Court the proceedings conducted and prosecuted by extraordinary procedure by the Lieutenant Criminel of Cap, at the request of the Substitut of the Procureur Général du Roi at the said Siège, Plaintiff and Accuser, against the man named François called Mongin, free mulâtre of La Marmelade, Plaintiff and Accused, held in the royal prisons of this town, appellant, as was the said Substitut, from the Sentence of the said Siège of 24 September last, which had declared the said François called Mongin duly attained and convicted of having raised his hand against the sieur Gautier on the main road, near the guardhouse of La Marmelade, when the said sieur Gautier had tried to wrest the négresse Ursule, enslaved by the sieur la Forestrie, from the hands of the said mulâtre Mongin, and of having even seized the said sieur Gautier by the body and taken him by the hair; in reparation for which, &c. Written conclusions of S. Martin the son, Substitut, for the Procureur Général du Roi; having heard the report of Maître Canivet, Conseiller, and all things considered, &c.