Case Name: UNITED STATES v. BARTON
Court: United States Circuit Court of the District of Columbia
Jurisdiction: United States
Decision Date: 1803-07
Citations: 24 F. Cas. 1024
Docket Number: 
Parties: UNITED STATES v. BARTON.
Judges: 
Reporter: Federal Cases
Volume: 24
Pages: 1024–1025

Head Matter:
Case No. 14,533.
UNITED STATES v. BARTON.
[1 Cranch, C. C. 132.]
Circuit Court, District of Columbia.
July Term, 1803.
Witness — Competency—Manumitted Suaves.
Manumitted slaves are good witnesses for or against a free mulatto in Washington county.
[Cited in U. S v. Mullany, Case No. 15,832.]
Indictment for stealing a handkerchief. Upon the prisoner being brought to the bar, he appeared to be a mulatto.

Opinion:
Two black witnesses, manumitted, were produced by the United States. Objection overruled and witnesses admitted, after read-ins the acts of assembly of Maryland, 1717, c. 13, and 1796, c. 77. •
Barton was indicted as a freeman.