People v. Osaki

SEAWELL, J.—

The defendants were jointly convicted upon five separate counts of an indictment containing six counts filed in the Superior Court of the county of Sutter, charging them with crime of conspiring to violate the Alien Land Act of the state. (Stats. 1921, p. lxxxiii; Stats. 1923, p. 1020; Stats. 1927, pp. 880, 881.)

The indictment charged that K. Yoshioka, a native of the" Hawaiian Islands, but admittedly of Japanese lineage, and K. Osaki, an alleged alien not eligible to citizenship under the laws of the United States, conspired together with the object and to the end that said…