
    United States v. Nancy Swann, a free Mulatto.
    A slave is not a competent witness for a free mulatto in a public prosecution.
    
      Mr. Hewitt, for the defendant,
    prayed for a summons for a negro slave as a witness for the defendant. The Court inclined to think that the slave could not be a witness against her, and therefore not a good witness for her, and refused the summons.
   Indictment for theft.  