Ex parte Edwards

DISSENTING OPINION OF

FREAR, C.J.

The questions now raised on habeas corpus were raised on exceptions by the same prisoner and decided by the unanimous judgment of the court on a rehearing adversely to him in Repub*50lic v. Edwards, 12 Haw. 55. I see no reason for changing my opinion as expressed in that case and in the case of Peacock & Co. v. Republic, 12 Haw. 27. In the Peacock case it was held that the provision of the Constitution which in terms requires that duties shall be uniform throughout the United States did not apply to the Hawaiian Islands during the transition period between the…