
    United States v. Barton.
    Manumitted slaves arc good witnesses for or against a free mulatto in Washington county.
    Indictment for stealing a handkerchief. Upon the prisoner being brought to the bar, he appeared to be a mulatto.
   Two black witnesses, manumitted, were produced by the United States. Objection overruled and witnesses admitted, after reading the Acts of Assembly of Maryland, 1717, c. 13, and 1796, c. 77.

Barton was indicted as a freeman.  