Territory of Hawaii v. Ota

OPINION OF THE COURT BY

KEMP, C. J.

(Peters, J., dissenting.)

The defendant Ota was tried in tbe circuit court of the fourth circuit on an information in two counts, in which it was charged by the first count that on or about the 26th day of September, 1940, he did “unlawfully and maliciously make a libel applying to and concerning one Martin Pence * * * by writing, printing and devising * * * a certain libelous writing with the intent that the said libelous writing should be published, which said libelous writing directly tended to injure the fame, reputation and good name of him, the said…