...species, who have nothing in common with us, in language, country, or laws. . . . In using the words, 'No Black, or Mulatto person, or Indian shall be allowed to give evidence for or against a White person,' the Legislature . . . adopted the most comprehensive terms to embrace...

...witnesses' testimony should have been excluded on the ground that, State law having already provided that "No Black or Mulatto person, or Indian, shall be allowed...give evidence in favor of, or against a white man," that prohibition should have been understood to extend to Chinese, since the latter are either descendants...

...Chinese witness, and that this testimony should have been excluded under an 1850 statute providing that "no Black, or Mulatto person, or Indian shall be allowed to give evidence in favor of, or against a White man."6 The court agreed with the defendant that the Chinese witness was barred from testifying by the...

...killing a Chinese miner by invoking Section 14 of the California Criminal Act, which specified that "no Black or mulatto person, or Indian shall be allowed...give evidence in favor of, or against a white man." In support of the decision Chief Justice Hugh Murray declared that "to let Chinese testify in a court...

...of the California Ctiminal Act, which specified that "no Black or mulatto person, or Indian shall he allowed to give evidence in favor of, or against a white man." In support of the decision Chief Justice Hugh Murray declared that "to let Chinese testify in a court...

...which Chinese were completely foreign. Under review was the applicability of a statute that stated, "No Black, or Mulatto person, or Indian, shall be...give evidence in favor of, or against a white man." While the statute made no mention of Chinese, the California Supreme Court concluded that the statute...

...in-migration, the California state legislature in 1850 reasserted white dominance by passing a law stating that "no Black, or Mulatto person, or Indian shall be allowed to give evidence for, or against a White man" in criminal proceedings. A case addressing the location of Chinese immigrants...

...because it rested heavily on the testimony of a Chinese witness. Applying a state law stipulating that "[n]o Black, or Mulatto person, or Indian shall be...give evidence in favor of, or against a white man," the Court prohibited Chinese from testifying in California courtrooms. Chief Justice Hugh G. Murray,...

...Chinese bystanders are labeled witnesses. There was a problem, however. California law provided that "No Black, or Mulatto person, or Indian, shall be...give evidence in favor of, or against a white man." Who, or better what, were the unmentioned Chinese? How were they to be named? I quote from the court's...

...based its opinion on section fourteen of an 1850 law regulating criminal proceedings according to which "no black or mulatto person, or Indian, shall be allowed...give evidence in favor of, or against a white man." Attempting to include Chinese under the rubric Indian, the court argued first that the term Indian...