Case Name: UNITED STATES v. BEDDO
Court: United States Circuit Court of the District of Columbia
Jurisdiction: United States
Decision Date: 1837-11
Citations: 24 F. Cas. 1063
Docket Number: 
Parties: UNITED STATES v. BEDDO.
Judges: 
Reporter: Federal Cases
Volume: 24
Pages: 1063–1063

Head Matter:
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.

Opinion:
THE COURT
rejected, as witnesses, free colored persons, not born of white mothers.
Verdict, not guilty.