
    United States v. Negro Richard, a Slave.
    Although a confession, made under a promise of favor is not, in itself, evidence against the prisoner, yet the fact of the prisoner’s going to the place 'where the property was secreted, and identifying it, is evidence against him.
    Indictment for stealing planks, the property of Mr. James McGuire, a lumber merchant.
    The prisoner, upon a promise that he should not be prosecuted, was induced to confess his guilt, and to go and return the stolen articles, and to select those which belonged to Mr. McGuire.
    
      Mr. Taylor and Mr. Fendall, for the prisoner, contended, and Mr. Swann, for the United States, admitted,
    that he must identify the property, independently of the confession.
   The CouRT

said, that the fact that the prisoner selected Mr. McGuire’s lumber was evidence against him.

Verdict, guilty.  