Case ID: del-cas_1/html/0016-02.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "\n      Bassett, C. J.,", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

STATE v. VALENTINE BENDER.
    Court of Quarter Sessions. Dover.
    December, 1793.
    
      Wilson’s Red Book, 11.
      
    
    
      
       This case is also reported in Bayard’s Notebook, 34; Miller’s Notebook, 33; Clayton’s Notebook, 2; Read’s Notebook, 12.
      
    
   Bassett, C. J.,

said a majority of the Court were for admitting her ex necessitate rel — that she was a good witness by the common law, and not excluded by the Act of Assembly from obtaining redress in that way, but, if the assault had been on a white man, he would not have admitted her.

Another witness proved it was the Negro’s own assault.

Verdict not guilty, and the court refused to certify.