Territory v. Izumi

OPINION OF THE COURT BY

COKE, C. J.

The defendant Edmnnd Kenyuld Izumi was found guilty by a jury in the court below of the crime of sexual and carnal intercourse with a female child under the age of sixteen years in violation of .section 6243, R. L. 1935, and has brought the cause to this court on a writ of error.

During the year 1935 and the early months of 1936 the appellant was acting principal of the territorial public school at Kihei, county of Maui. The school is a three-room institution. The higher grade, composed of the older students, both boys and girls, was directly under the charge…