 | Indiana. Supreme Court, Horace E. Carter, Albert Gallatin Porter, Gordon Tanner, Benjamin Harrison, Michael Crawford Kerr, James Buckley Black, Augustus Newton Martin, Francis Marion Dice, John Worth Kern, John Lewis Griffiths, Sidney Romelee Moon, Charles Frederick Remy - 1857
...The People v. Hall. 4 California R. 399, MURRAY, CJ, in a learned opinion, says: "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, if any intention can be ascribed to it, adopted the... | |
 | Henry Jacob Labatt - 1861 - 1136 Seiten
...China, established under the treaty of 1841. Ib. 285. CHINESE. 1. The criminal act provides that " no black or mulatto person or Indian shall be allowed...of or against a white man " : held, that the words Indian, negro, black and white are generic terms designating race ; that therefore Chinese and all... | |
 | California. Supreme Court - 1875
...witness in any action in which a white person is aparty." 1 IDEM. -Section 1 4 of the Criminal Act provides: ' ' No Black, or Mulatto person, or Indian...give evidence in favor of, or against a White man." Hc.i'd, that the words, Indian, Negro, Black and White, arc generic terms, designating race. That,... | |
 | California - 1907
...v. Stouter, 142 Gal. 146, 75 Рас. 780. § 15. fiace or Color. [a] Section 14 of the Criminal Act provides: "No black or mulatto person or Indian shall...favor of or against a white man." Held, that the words "Indian, negro, black and white," are generic terms, designating race. That therefore Chinese and all... | |
 | Abraham Clark Freeman - 1911
...it are the following: In People v. Hall, 4 Cal. 399, the court, interpreting the following statute: "No black or mulatto person, or Indian, shall be allowed...favor of. or against a white man"; held, that the statute disqualified all races other than Caucasian, and that, therefore, a Chinaman could not testify.... | |
 | 1925
...'white,' and fhat it should be taken as contradistinguished from all white persons. "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, if any intention can be ascribed to it, adopted the... | |
 | California. Supreme Court - 1906
...White," and that it should be taken as contradistinguished from all White persons. 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, if any intention can be ascribed to it, adopted the... | |
 | Philip J. Ethington - 1994 - 464 Seiten
...the official underclass, the California Supreme Court ruled in 1854 that the words of the 185o act, "No Black, or Mulatto person, or Indian shall be allowed...give evidence in favor of, or against a White man," were intended to encompass the Chinese as nonwhite.81 The relationship in San Francisco - as elsewhere... | |
 | Charles McClain - 1994 - 503 Seiten
...applicability of an 1850 statute, passed before California's forma! admittance into the Union, providing that "no Black, or Mulatto person, or Indian shall be allowed to give evidence in favor of, or against a White man."6 In a short but expansive opinion, the California Supreme Court reversed the conviction and held... | |
 | Charles McClain - 1994 - 403 Seiten
...punishments was passed, part of which declared that, "[n]o black, or Mulatto person, or Indian should be allowed to give evidence in favor of, or against, a white man." In 1863, this law was amended to include Chinese, while blacks and mulattos were excluded. 1850 Cal.... | |
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no black or mulatto person, or Indian shall be allowed to give evidence for or against a white person... 
