Case Name: UNITED STATES v. DAVIS
Court: United States Circuit Court of the District of Columbia
Jurisdiction: United States
Decision Date: 1835-11
Citations: 25 F. Cas. 775
Docket Number: 
Parties: UNITED STATES v. DAVIS.
Judges: 
Reporter: Federal Cases
Volume: 25
Pages: 775–775

Head Matter:
Case No. 14,925.
UNITED STATES v. DAVIS.
[4 Cranch, C. C. 606.]
Circuit Court, District of Columbia.
Nov. Term, 1835.
Witness—Mulatto Born op White Woman.
A mulatto bom of a white woman, and not in a state- of servitude by law, is a competent witness for a white man.
[Reported by Hon. William Cranch, Chief Judge.]

Opinion:
The defendant [Richard Davis] was indicted for an assault and battery with intent to kill one-- Shorter, a colored man. Upon the trial, a mulatto man named Collins, born of a white woman, and not in a state of servitude by law, was admitted by the court to testify for the defendant, who was a white man.
See Act Md. 1717, e. 13, § 2.