Case Name: STATE v. VALENTINE BENDER
Court: Delaware Court of Quarter Sessions
Jurisdiction: Delaware
Decision Date: 1794-12
Citations: 2 Del. Cas. 9
Docket Number: 
Parties: STATE v. VALENTINE BENDER.
Judges: 
Reporter: Delaware Cases
Volume: 2
Pages: 9–10

Head Matter:
STATE v. VALENTINE BENDER.
Court of Quarter Sessions. Kent.
December, 1794.
Read’s Notebook, 12.
This case is also reported in Bayard’s Notebook, 34; Clayton’s Notebook, 2; Miller’s Notebook, 33; Wilson’s Red Book, 11.

Opinion:
Bassett, C. J.,
said a majority of the Court were for admitting ex necessitate rel that she was a good witness by the common law and not excluded by the Act of Assembly from obtaining redress in that way; but if the assault had been on a white woman or man, he would not have admitted her.
Another witness proved that it was the Negro's own assault.
Verdict of not guilty, and the Court refused to certify.