Application of Palakiko and Majors

This is a petition for a writ of habeas corpus in a capital case. It is brought on behalf of John Palakiko and James Edward Majors, convicted of murder in the first degree. The petitioner is the sister of Palakiko and she filed the petition on her own affidavit under the circumstances and on the grounds described inApplication of Palakiko and Majors, 39 Haw. 134. Those grounds constitute a collateral attack upon the conviction of Palakiko and Majors in the first circuit court of the Territory and are, briefly, that such conviction is void because it was secured by coerced confessions in…