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

Case No. 14,557.
    UNITED STATES v. BEDDO.
    [5 Cranch, C. C. 378.] 
    
    Circuit Court, District of Columbia.
    Nov. Term, 1837.
    Witness — Negro—Mulatto Born of White Woman.
    [See Case No. 14,456.]
    Indictment for larceny. The defendant was a colored man, born of a white woman.
   THE COURT

rejected, as witnesses, free colored persons, not born of white mothers.

Verdict, not guilty.