Territory of Hawaii v. Hall

OPINION OF THE COURT BY

HARTWELL, J.

The magistrate convicted tbe defendant and sentenced him To a fine of $25 and $3 costs on the charge of violating Par. 5, *537Sec. 12, Act 67, Laws of 1905, by furnishing beer to two minors at the business place (saloon) of the Kauai Wine & Liquor Co., of which the defendant was manager, the sentence being based on Sec. 40.

The errors assigned are: (1) That, in respect of Ioane, one of the boys furnished with beer, there was no evidence that he was a minor, but his father’s evidence was that he was fully nineteen years of age, having been born in March, 1885,…