Territory v. Duvauchelle

OPINION OP THE COURT BY

LINDSAY, J.

The defendants (Edward Duvauchelle and his two sons, John and Waldemar Duvauchelle) upon trial under an indictment charging them with murder in the first degree were convicted of murder in the second degree, it being charged in the indictment that on the fifteenth day of March, 1916, the defendants killed one Wong Waiboud at Keawanui on the Island of Molokai by assaulting him, binding him with rope, placing him in a boat and taking him out and casting him from the boat into the waters of Keawanui bay. The case comes here on exceptions.

The first exception that…