Republic of Hawaii v. Radin

Decision on Plea in Bar, by

Circuit Judge Perry.

The defendant was charged in the District Court of Honolulu, on the 20th day of April, 1897, with “the unlawful possession of opium or preparation thereof in Honolulu, Island of Oahu, Hawaiian Islands^ on, to-wit, April 6, 1897.” To this charge a plea in bar was interposed which read as follows: “Now comes the defendant in the above entitled cause and says that he ought not to be required to plead to or answer the charge preTerr ed against him herein for that he was, on the 13th day of April, 1897, in the District Court of Honolulu, duly tried…