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Case No. 14,988.
    UNITED STATES v. DOUGLASS.
    [2 Cranch, C. C. 94.] 
    
    Circuit Court, District of Columbia.
    Dec. Term, 1813.
    Witness—Freeborn Mulatto.
    A freeborn mulatto is a competent witness against a white person.
    
      
       [Reported by Hon. William Cranch, Chief Judge.]
    
   Indictment for larceny. The defendant [Rufh Douglass] was a white woman. Nancy Butler, a freeborn mulatto, was permitted to testify for the United States, upon the authority of U. S. y. Mullany, at December term, 1808 [Case No. 15,832].

THRUSTON, Circuit Judge, absent.