Coll v. Desha

OPINION OP THE COURT BY

PETERS, C. J.

This writ challenges the jurisdiction of the judge of the circuit court of the first circuit presiding oyer the division of domestic relations to punish petitioner as and for a contempt in publishing or causing to be published in “The Honolulu Advertiser,” a newspaper published in Honolulu, of which the petitioner is editor, an editorial alleged to be an unfair report of proceedings in the division of domestic relations and which, as it is alleged, contained malicious invectives against said court and tended to bring it and the administration of justice…