Ex parte Ah Oi

DISSENTING OPINION OF

GALBRAITH, J.

The proceedings in these “crown cases” or habeas corpus appeals have been most extraordinary and, as it seems to me, wanting in some of the necessary elements to entitle them to be called “legal proceedings.”

"When the special term of the Supreme Court convened on the 12th instant there was on the printed calendar six habeas corpus cases. Four of these were attempted appeals by the Attorney-General from the orders of the Judge of the First Circuit Court discharging the petitioners. The court ordered that the habeas corpus cases be taken up first. That of Osaki…