
    United States v. Ruth Douglass.
    A free tom mulatto is a competent witness against a white person.
   Indictment for larceny. The defendant was a white woman. Nancy Butler, a free born mulatto, was permitted to testify for the United Slates, upon'the authority of the United States v. Mullany, at December term, 1808. 1 Cranch, C. C. 517. (Thruston, J., absent.)  