Territory of Hawaii v. Kelley

OPINION OF THE COURT BY

LE BARON, J.

This is an interlocutory bill of exceptions to the order of the trial judge overruling demurrers in two criminal cases wherein the defendant is charged with misdemeanors in violation of section 7-A of ordinance number 941 of the City and County of Honolulu.

The- specification of errors solely challenges the trial court’s “jurisdiction of the complaints herein” on the ground that the ordinance is invalid and void. But this ground as a matter of law presupposes that the trial court had jurisdiction of the subject matter, otherwise the court would not be…