
    Case No. 14,564.
    UNITED STATES v. BELL.
    [1 Cranch, C. C. 94.] 
    
    Circuit Court, District of Columbia.
    Nov. Term, 1802.
    Witness — Slave—Fhee Mulatto,
    A slave may be a witness on a prosecution against a free mulatto, in Alexandria cotmty.
   Indictment for stealing. Slaves were permitted to be sworn on the part of the United States against the prisoner [Betty Bell, alias Mullican, a free mulatto]. Old Acts Va. 348; Code 1792, pp. 199, 200; Act 1801, Jan. 21, § 4.  