North Carolina v. Mann 13 NC 263 1829 is a North Carolina Supreme Court case (not a U.S. Supreme Court case) from the 1820s.

A North Carolina Court convicted a slave owner for shooting a slave as she ran away from a beating.  The North Carolina Supreme Court overruled the conviction on the grounds that slaves were the absolute property of their owners and they could be punished as slavers liked unless a law explicitly said so.