The King v. Wo Sow

*735Opinion of the Court, by

Preston, J.

The defendant Wo Sow was indicted at the May Term of the Circuit Court, Third Judicial Circuit, for the murder of one Quon Yep, and one Aki was charged in the same indictment as an accessory before the fact to such murder, and one Ten Yeck was also charged in the same indictment as an accessory after the fact.

To this indictment the defendants demurred on the following grounds: 1. That the Hawaiian Criminal Procedure Act does not permit accessories to be joined with the principal unless charged with the substantive offense. 2. That said statute does not…