
    Thomas v. Jamesson.
    A slave cannot be a witness if a free white man be a party.
    Assault and battery. The plaintiff was a man of color. The defendant, a free white man, offered his slave as a witness under the Act of Assembly, Rev. Code, 289,§ 3; Old Acts of Assembly, p. 284.
   The Court

refused to permit the slave to be sworn. See the Act of 1801, January 21st, § 4.  