Territory of Hawaii v. Kawano

OPINION OF THE COURT BY

DE BOLT, J.

The defendant (plaintiff in error) having been convicted of the crime of perjury in the circuit court of the second circuit and sentenced to imprisonment at hard labor for the period of eighteen months, brings the case here on a writ of error.

The perjury is alleged to have been committed at the hearing of certain interpleader proceedings brought by the sheriff before the circuit judge of the second circuit, at chambers, for the purpose of having the ownership- of a certain billiard table, held under a writ of attachment, judicially determined as between M.…