The King v. Ah Fook

Opinion oe the Court, by

Dole, J.

The defendant demurred to an indictment charging him with perjury in the first degree, committed as a witness in the examination of one Ah Wai, upon a charge of arson, before William Foster, Esq., Police Justice of Honolulu.

The first ground of the demurrer, relating to the oath alleged to have been administered to defendant, is identical with the first ground of demurrer in the cases of The King vs. Angee and The King vs. Ahung, ante, page 259; the defendants in which cases being also indicted for perjury alleged to have been committed in the examination of…