
    United States v. William Shorter, a Free Negro.
    A slave is a competent witness for a free black man on a criminal prosecution.
    Indictment against a free black man. The traverser offered a slave as a witness. Admitted, upon the authority of United States v. Negress Terry at the last term, [ante 318.] (Duckett, J., absent.) See the Acts of Assembly of Maryland, 1717, e. 13, § 2, 3.
   Verdict, not guilty.  