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Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

Case No. 14,925.
    UNITED STATES v. DAVIS.
    [4 Cranch, C. C. 606.]
    
    Circuit Court, District of Columbia.
    Nov. Term, 1835.
    Witness—Mulatto Born op White Woman.
    A mulatto bom of a white woman, and not in a state- of servitude by law, is a competent witness for a white man.
    
      
       [Reported by Hon. William Cranch, Chief Judge.]
    
   The defendant [Richard Davis] was indicted for an assault and battery with intent to kill one-- Shorter, a colored man. Upon the trial, a mulatto man named Collins, born of a white woman, and not in a state of servitude by law, was admitted by the court to testify for the defendant, who was a white man.

See Act Md. 1717, e. 13, § 2.