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Case No. 15,859.
UNITED STATES v. NEALE.
[2 Cranch, C. C. 241.]1
Circuit Court, District of Columbia.
April Term, 1821.
WITNESS—COMPETENCY—FREE NEGRO.
A free colored man who has resided in this district eight years, and publicly acted as a freeman, and so generally reputed to be, is a competent witness for the United States against a free colored person.
Indictment for assault and battery.
THE COURT permitted Edward Pleasants, a black man, to be sworn as a witness for the United States, after proof that he had publicly lived and acted as a freeman for eight years, and was generally reputed to be free.
1 [Reported by Hon. William Cranch, Chief Judge.]
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