
    United States v. Richard Davis.
    A mulatto torn of a white woman, and not in a state of servitude by law, is a competent witness for a white man.
    The defendant was indicted for an assault and battery with intent to kill one Shorter, a colored man.
   Upon the trial a mulatto man named Collins, born of a white woman, and not in a state of servitude by law, was admitted by the Court to testify for the defendant, who was a white man.

See the Act of Maryland, 1717, c. 13, § 2.  