Territory v. Braly

OPINION OP THE COURT BY

BANKS, J.

This is an interlocutory bill of exceptions. On tbe 22d day of April, 1925, the defendant George A. Braly was indicted by tbe grand jury of tbe first judicial circuit, Territory of Hawaii, for tbe crime of manslaughter. Subsequent to bis arraignment tbe defendant filed a plea in abatement by wbicb be sought to have tbe indictment' quashed. In bis plea be challenged tbe validity of tbe indictment on several grounds. Tbe first ground relates to tbe legality of tbe grand jury wbicb returned tbe indictment. Tbe second is, “That there is no valid law defining tbe…