Legal Opinion

Territory v. Tan Yick

Hawaii Supreme Court

Decided September 30, 1915PublishedCited by 6 opinions

Error to Circuit Court, Second Circuit. Hon. W. S. Edings, Judge.

1Opinion of the Court

OPINION OP THE COURT BY

ROBERTSON, C. J. (Quarles, J., dissenting)

The plaintiff in error' was convicted by a jury under an indictment which charged that he," on the 31st day of December, 1914, “unlawfully, feloniously and without authority or justification by law, did take indecent and improper liberties with the person of one Maria Lau Chong, an unmarried female child under the age of twelve years; and he, the said Tan Tick, also sometimes known as and called Ah Chick, did then and there and thereby commit the crime of indecent assault.”

The assignments of error go to the denial by the trial…

2Cases cited13 opinions

  1. United States v. CookSupreme Court of the United States · 1872
  2. Rowell v. . JanvrinNew York Court of Appeals · 1896
  3. State v. HameySupreme Court of Missouri · 1902
  4. Barnett's Adm'r v. Barnett's Adm'rCourt of Appeals of Kentucky · 1858
  5. Commonwealth v. SmithMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1890

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3Cited by6 opinions

  1. Territory v. SilvaHawaii Supreme Court · 1922
  2. Territory v. ChingHawaii Supreme Court · 1936
  3. Phipps v. Commissioner of Internal RevenueCourt of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit · 1937
  4. Phipps v. Commissioner of Internal RevenueCourt of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit · 1937
  5. Tajran v. Estate of Irene McDonaldDistrict Court, S.D. California · 2020

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