Ex parte Ah Yup
A Commonly Accepted  Meaning of “White”?

¢Words in a statute, other than technical terms, should be taken in their ordinary sense. But these words in this country, at least, have undoubtedly acquired a well settled meaning in common popular speech, and they are constantly used in the sense so acquired in the literature of the country, as well as in common parlance. As ordinarily used everywhere in the United States, one would scarcely fail to understand that the party employing the words “white person” would intend a person of the Caucasian race.