The Negro trail blazers of California [microform] : a compilation of records from the California archives in the Bancroft Library at the University of California, in Berkeley; and from the diaries, old papers, and conversations of old pioneers in the State of California ... . PROF. CHARLES ALEXANDEREditor, Autlior and Lecturer. SIDNEY P. DONESInvestment Broiler. OF CALIFORNIA 59 The Negro was not the only person who was denied the Right of Testimony inthe courts of justice; a case is recorded in California Reports, number 4, October, 1854,page 399: Ttie People, respondent, against George W. Ha
The Negro trail blazers of California [microform] : a compilation of records from the California archives in the Bancroft Library at the University of California, in Berkeley; and from the diaries, old papers, and conversations of old pioneers in the State of California ... . PROF. CHARLES ALEXANDEREditor, Autlior and Lecturer. SIDNEY P. DONESInvestment Broiler. OF CALIFORNIA 59 The Negro was not the only person who was denied the Right of Testimony inthe courts of justice; a case is recorded in California Reports, number 4, October, 1854,page 399: Ttie People, respondent, against George W. Hall, appellant. The appellant, afree white citizen of this State, was convicted of murder upon the testimony of a Chinesewitness, the point involved in the case is the admissibility of such evidence. The case wastried before Chief Justice J. Murry and J. Heydenfeldt. The following is a part of thedecision: No Black or Mulatto person or Indian shall be allowed to give evidence infavor of or against a white man. Held, that the word Indian, Negro, Black, and whiteare generic terms designating races. That therefore Chinese and all other people not whiteare included in the prohibition from being witnesses. The reader can readily see the greatdifficulty the Negroes as well a
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