In Re Oxiles

OPINION OF THE COURT BY

PERRY, C. J.

On November 18, 1925, in the circuit court of the first circuit, during the trial of the .case of the Territory of Hawaii v. Juan Oxiles, an indictment charging perjury, private counsel assisting the prosecution orally informed the court that it had just come to his attention that the defendant then on trial had tampered with one of the witnesses for the prosecution, one Lorenzo Séquito, and had thereby committed a contempt of court; and the court thereupon suggested to the prosecuting attorney that the charge of contempt against the defendant be formally…