Territory of Hawaii v. Kaizo

OPINION OF THE COURT BY

WILDER, J. (Hartwell, J., dissenting.)

Defendant was indicted for murder by a grand jury composed of sixteen members at the August, 1905, term of the-circuit court of the fourth circuit. He filed a plea in abatement, to the effect that eight of the members of the grand jury were aliens and therefore ineligible and incompetent to act. It appeared that some time between June 14, 1900, and August 1,. 1905, each of said eight grand jurors being entitled to be naturalized applied for a judgment of naturalization to the circuit-court of the fourth circuit, and upon such…