Case No. 14,557.

UNITED STATES v. BEDDO.

[5 Cranch, C. C. 378.]¹

Circuit Court, District of Columbia.

Nov. Term, 1837.

WITNESS—NEGRO—MULATTO BORN OF WHITE WOMAN.

Indictment for larceny. The defendant was a colored man, horn of a white woman.

THE COURT rejected, as witnesses, free colored persons, not born of white mothers.

Verdict, not guilty.

[See Case No. 14,456.]

¹ [Reported by Hon. William Cranch. Chief Judge.]

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