In re the Grand Jury Duly Impaneled & Sworn in & for the Circuit Court

ORAL OPINION.

Frear, C. J.

The appellant refused to answer a question put to him as a witness before the grand jury. For this he was found guilty of contempt by the circuit court and sentenced to imprisonment for ten days or until such time as he should purge himself of the contempt. He seeks a reversal of the judgment on exceptions, and the question is whether exceptions lie in a case of this nature.

It has been settled by former decisions that prior to the act of 1903 an appeal did not lie in a contempt case. That was held *337in Onomea Sugar Co. v. Austin, 5 Haw. 604, the court basing; its…