American Watchman And Delaware Advertiser

The Raleigh, N. C. Register, of the 12th inst. furnishes another evidence of the "glorious uncertainty of the law," in the termination of a trial before the Supreme Court, in that place. The account is as follows: -

'The cause which excited the most interest during the term, was the trial of a young man (called in the indictment a man of color, though he had the appearance of a white man, and had a white woman for his wife,) charged with committing a violent assault upon a young white female. The trial occupied the whole of Friday last; and if the offence had been satisfactorily proved, the prisoner's life must have paid the forfeit, agreeably to an act passed in the year 1825. But the Judge, in charging the Jury, observed that no proof had been adduced to shew that the prisoner was a man of color within the fourth degree in descent from African or Indian blood; and without such proof, he could not be subjected to the penalties of the law in question. The Judge left it with the Jury to decide, whether the evidence had been sufficient to convince them that the assault had been committed as charged in the indictment. The Jury withdrew for a few minutes, and returned a verdict of Not Guilty.'