United States v. Fisher

[This was an indictment against Henry Fisher, a free white man.]

Indictment for beating prisoner’s wife. The assault having been proved by Mr. Threlkield. Lucy Butler, a black woman,, was offered as a witness on the part of United States. Mr. Threlkield having sworn that’ she had always passed for a free woman for many years, the court permitted her to be-sworn to the jury.

Quaere. See the act of assembly of Maryland (1717, c. 13, § 2).