ON an information for goods seized as British goods, and imported into the State of Pennsylvania, the following points were resolved:
1st. That the informer cannot be a witness.
2d. That, although the informer releases his right to a moiety or the goods, he cannot be a witness: because he is interested in the event; he being liable to pay the costs of the claimants, in case a verdict is found for them.
3d. That by the Act of Assembly, the judge who...
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