Case Name: STATE v. VALENTINE BENDER
Court: Delaware Court of Quarter Sessions
Jurisdiction: Delaware
Decision Date: 1793-12
Citations: 1 Del. Cas. 16
Docket Number: 
Parties: STATE v. VALENTINE BENDER.
Judges: 
Reporter: Delaware Cases
Volume: 1
Pages: 16–17

Head Matter:
STATE v. VALENTINE BENDER.
Court of Quarter Sessions. Dover.
December, 1793.
Wilson’s Red Book, 11.
This case is also reported in Bayard’s Notebook, 34; Miller’s Notebook, 33; Clayton’s Notebook, 2; Read’s Notebook, 12.

Opinion:
Bassett, C. J.,
said a majority of the Court were for admitting her 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 man, he would not have admitted her.
Another witness proved it was the Negro's own assault.
Verdict not guilty, and the court refused to certify.