The same statute might be successfully administered in a State where there was no exclusion of colored testimony, and miserably fail in another State where such exclusion prevailed; and the same judge might be called in one court to admit the testimony, and in another court to reject it.
He illustrates how the same legal statute can yield different outcomes depending on the state's treatment of colored testimony.
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