State v. Moeller

OPINION OF THE COURT BY

ABE, J.

On July S, 1965, defendant-appellant shot and killed Bradley Nalu Kaanana, a police officer of the Honolulu Police Department, at the Nuuanu Pali Lookout. The deceased together with other police officers had been directed to investigate a sniping or shooting incident at the Pali Lookout.

After defendant had been indicted for murder in the first degree in the Circuit Court of the First Circuit, an attorney was appointed by the court to defend him. Presumably because of defendant’s prior record of mental illness, 1 his attorney moved for the appointment of examiners…