Territory of Hawaii v. Lerner

The defendant Curtis Lerner was convicted in the district court of Honolulu of violating the provisions of section 5972, Revised Laws of Hawaii 1935, known as the false advertising statute. The charge, briefly, was that he had inserted in The Honolulu Advertiser of March 9, 1941, an advertisement which was untrue, deceptive and misleading. From a conviction by the district magistrate he appealed to the circuit court, where, after a trialde novo, jury waived, he was again convicted. The case is here on writ of error to the circuit court.

The statute which the defendant is charged with violating…