The King v. Kumuhoa
Hawaii Supreme Court
Exceptions erom Circuit Court, Third Judicial Circuit, A motion to quash an indictment is not a proper subject of exceptions. A motion to quash must be made before defendant has pleaded. Inspectors of Election may appoint deputies to represent them on the Board of Inspectors, when the Inspectors themselves are actually absent from the place where the meetings of the Board are held : but not otherwise.
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Exceptions erom Circuit Court, Third Judicial Circuit, A motion to quash an indictment is not a proper subject of exceptions. A motion to quash must be made before defendant has pleaded. Inspectors of Election may appoint deputies to represent them on the Board of Inspectors, when the Inspectors themselves are actually absent from the place where the meetings of the Board are held : but not otherwise. Inspectors of Election held guilty, under the Act of 1868, of malfeasance in the performance of their duties.
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion oe the Court, by
McCully, J.
Exceptions from the May Term, 1886, of the Third Judicial Circuit Court.
The defendants were charged in the Police Court of Hilo, from whence the ease was appealed to the Circuit Court, with a violation of the laws relating to elections, in a neglect to perform certain official duties prescribed to a District Judge and a Tax Collector, which the defendants severally were, by Sections 6 and 7 of the Act of 1868, and were, on conviction, sentenced according to Section 812 of the Civil Code.
These laws are as follows :
“ Section 6. The Inspectors of Elections, viz…
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