Superior Court of Delaware April 5, 1841 (State v. Griffin Wilson)

The defendant, Wilson, (the only one now on trial) was indicted with Jacob E. Griffin, for exporting from this State to Virginia, two negro convicts, Emory Hand and James Hickman, contrary to section 17, of the act providing for the punishment of certain crimes and misdemeanors. (Digest, 148.) Emory Hand was called as a witness, and objected to, on the ground that he was not a freeman.