Case Name: Simmons Groning v. Peter Devana
Court: South Carolina Court of Appeals
Jurisdiction: South Carolina
Decision Date: 1831-02
Citations: 2 Bail. 192
Docket Number: 
Parties: Simmons Groning v. Peter Devana.
Judges: 
Reporter: South Carolina Law Reports
Volume: 18
Pages: 192–192

Head Matter:
Simmons Groning v. Peter Devana.
A free person of colour is not a competent witness, in any case, in the Courts of Record of this State, although both the parties to the suit are of the same class with himself: Nor can book-entries made by a free negro, be received in evidence, on the oath of a white person to his handwriting. The principal evidence being excluded, that which is secondary is inadmissible

Opinion:
jPer totam curiam,,
sustaining the nonsuit ordered by the Recorder, in the City Court of Charleston, July Term, 1830.