Territory of Hawaii v. Sing Yuen

OPINION OF THE COURT BY

BALLOU, J.

Upon the defendant’s admission that he had sold gasoline within the Territory which gives off an inflammable vapor at *612ii temperature of less than one hundred degrees Fahrenheit, he was convicted of a violation of li. L. Sec. 972, reading as follows:

“It shall not be lawful for any person or persons to sell within this Territory, benzole, petroleum, or any oils of which the component part is naptha or gasoline, which gives oft' an inflammable vapor at a temperature of less than one hundred degrees Fahrenheit; and whoever shall sell, give or furnish, to any…