Provisional Government v. Gertz

Opinion oe the Court, by

Frear, J.

This case comes tip on exceptions from tbe Circuit Court of tbe First Circuit, where at the last August Term the defendant, upon bis appeal from tbe District Court of Honolulu, was found guilty of importing opium contrary to tbe provisions of Section 1, Act 12 of the Laws of the Provisional Government of the Hawaiian Islands.

The first exception was taken to tbe overruling of defendant’s objection to tbe drawing of a jury from the remainder of tlie regular panel of thirty six jurors, after tbe names of *289twelve jurors who were then sitting in another case had…