Case Name: United States v. Lucretia Carrico
Court: United States Circuit Court of the District of Columbia
Jurisdiction: United States
Decision Date: 1837-03
Citations: 5 Cranch 112
Docket Number: 
Parties: United States v. Lucretia Carrico.
Judges: 
Reporter: Reports of cases argued and determined in the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia (District of Columbia - reported by Mackey)
Volume: 5
Pages: 112–113

Head Matter:
United States v. Lucretia Carrico.
A witness cannot be rejected in consequence of having been provoked to bet upon the event of the trial.
A wager upon the event of the trial is void in law.
Indictment for assaulting and beating a Mrs. Collard. Mary Hutchinson, a witness for the United States, upon cross-examination, admitted that one James C. Deneale, who had irritated the witness, and by whose advice the defendant had cowhided Mrs. Collard, told the witness, before the trial, that he would bet her five dollars that Mrs. Collard would be cast; and the witness agreed to the wager.
Mr. W L. Brent, for the defendant,
objected, and contended that the testimony which the witness had given should be rejected.

Opinion:
The Court said, that the wager was void in law, and that the witness, not being, in fact, interested, could not be excluded; but that the circumstances attending the wager would go to the credit of the witness.