In Re Okahara

Petitioner, E. Okahara, a person of the Japanese race and a native-born subject of the Empire of Japan, and being ineligible to citizenship in this country, is restrained of his liberty by the sheriff of Placer County, this state, upon a warrant issued on a complaint charging him with conspiring with one Tom Yicencio to unlawfully and feloniously effect a transfer of an interest in real property in violation of section 10 of the alien land law, approved November 2, 1920, by the people of this state as an initiative measure (Stats. 1921, p. lxxxiii). By this proceeding he asks to be released…