
    Simmons Groning v. Peter Devana.
    A free person of colour is not a competent witness, in any case, in the Courts of Record of this State, although both the parties to the suit are of the same class with himself: Nor can book-entries made by a free negro, be received in evidence, on the oath of a white person to his handwriting. The principal evidence being excluded, that which is secondary is inadmissible
   jPer totam curiam,,

sustaining the nonsuit ordered by the Recorder, in the City Court of Charleston, July Term, 1830.  