Case ID: f-cas_27/html/1072-02.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "DUCKETT, Circuit Judge,", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

Case Wo. 16,284.
    UNITED STATES v. SHORTER.
    [1 Cranch, C. C. 371.] 1
    Circuit Court, District of Columbia.
    Dec. Term, 1806.
    Slave as’Witness.
    A slave is a competent witness for a free black man on a criminal prosecution.
    [Cited in U. S. v. Mullany, Case No. 15.832.]
    Indictment against [William Shorter] a free black man.
    The traverser offered a slave as a witness. Admitted, upon the authority of U. S. v. Terry [Case No. 16,454], at the last term.
   DUCKETT, Circuit Judge,

absent.

See Acts Assem. Md. 1717, c. 13, §§ 2, 3.

Verdict, not guilty.