Territory of Hawaii v. Watanabe Masagi

OPINION OF THE COURT BY

HARTWELL, J.

The defendants were tried at the January Term, 1903, of the Fourth Circuit Court held at Hilo, Island of Hawaii, Little J., presiding, upon an indictment charging them with the murder of one Motohiro Eitaro, January 25, 1902. The indictment charged murder in the first degree. The jury rendered a verdict finding the defendants guilty of murder in the second degree. The court sentenced the defendant Eunakoshi Tatsutaro to imprisonment at hard labor for thirty years and the defendant Watanabe Masagi to imprisonment at hard labor for twenty-five years.

The bill…