Territory of Hawaii v. Ah Choy

OPINION OF THE COURT BY

HARTWELL, J.

The defendants were convicted and sentenced to pay a fine of $5 each and $1.15 costs by the district magistrate of Honolulu upon a charge of violating an ordinance of the county of Oahu made by its board of supervisors against spraying clothes with liquid projected from the mouth.

*332The defendants appealed from the judgment upon points of law, viz.: “That said judgment is illegal and invalid because :•

1. That this Court has no jurisdiction of or concerning the charge entered against the defendants, or of the subject matter of said cause.

2. That said charge sets…