United States v. Beddo

24 F. Cas. 1063, 5 D.C. 378, 5 Cranch 378

This text of 24 F. Cas. 1063 (United States v. Beddo) is published on Counsel Stack Legal Research, covering U.S. Circuit Court for the District of District of Columbia primary law. Counsel Stack provides free access to over 12 million legal documents including statutes, case law, regulations, and constitutions.

Bluebook
United States v. Beddo, 24 F. Cas. 1063, 5 D.C. 378, 5 Cranch 378 (circtddc 1837).

Opinion

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

The Court rejected, as witnesses, free colored persons, not bom of white mothers.

Verdict, not guilty.

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