Territory v. Crowley

OPINION OP THE COURT BY

CIRCUIT JUDGE CRISTY. (Peters, J., dissenting.)

These cases are on writ of error from convictions of plaintiffs in error for publishing in a weekly paper a criminal libel. Separate informations were filed against the Hawaii Sentinel Publishing Company, Limited, an Hawaiian corporation, as owner and publisher of “The Hawaii Sentinel” and against Leo F. Crowley as editor and author of the article complained of. The two cases were, by stipulation of the parties, tried together in the circuit court. Both defendants were convicted and separately prosecuted error. The cases…