Territory v. Ferguson

OPINION OP THE COURT BY

QUARLES, J.

The defendant was tried in the district court of Maka-wao in the second judicial circuit upon the charge of stealing 246 pounds of pineapples alleged to be the property of the Maui Agricultural Company, a partnership, entered a plea of not guilty, and was convicted. From the judgment of conviction he has appealed to this court upon a point of law stated in the magistrate’s certificate of appeal as follows: “That there is no evidence whatever to warrant a conviction of the defendant of the crime charged.” The form and sufficiency of the statement of the point…