Republic of Hawaii v. Li Shai

OPINION OF THE COURT BY

JUDD, C.J.

The defendant was convicted in the District Court of Honolulu on the 14th Uovember, 1895, of the offense of “foot-binding,” and appealed to this court on points of law. The law alleged to be violated is Act 9 of the Republic, entitled “An Act to prevent foot-binding,” approved on the 26th July, 1895. It is as follows:

*263“Section 1. The term ‘foot-binding’ as in this Act nsed shall he held to mean the compression, mutilation, injury or deformity cansed to the feet of young girls; also the means nsed to so compress, mutilate, injure or deform such feet, as well as…