The King v. Ah Sing
Hawaii Supreme Court
Exceptions prom Circuit Court, Second Judicial Circuit. Charge to the jury, as to facts constituting possession of opium, by defendant, held to be justified by the evidence, and unobjectionable. There being evidence to justify the verdict, it cannot be set aside.
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion op the Court, by
Preston, J.
The defendant was convicted in the Police Court of Wailuku of the offense of having opium unlawfully in his possession, and appealed from such conviction to the Circuit Court of the Second Judicial Circuit, which appeal came on for trial before a foreign jury at the last December Term of the said Court at Lahaina, McCully, J., presiding, Fornander, Circuit Judge, being also present. The jury rendered a verdict of guilty. The case turned upon the fact as to whether the' defendant had the actual possession of the box containing the opium (18 tins).
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