Territory v. Carter

OPINION OP THE COURT BY

WILDER, J.

This is an appeal by defendant on points of law from the district magistrate of Honolulu, tbe sole question to be decided being whether the district court has jurisdiction of an assault and battery committed by a lieutenant commander of tbe United States navy on tbe naval reservation in Honolulu. The *199land, in question on which this assault and battery was committed was ceded by the Republic of Hawaii to the United States and accepted by the Newlands resolution approved July 7, 1898. On November 10, 1899, a parcel of land including the one in question was…