Legal Opinion

Territory of Hawaii v. Wong Shui King

Hawaii Supreme Court

Decided March 17, 1903Published

Exceptions from Circuit Court, First Circuit.

1Opinion of the Court

OPINION OF THE COURT BY

PERRY, J. (Galbraith, J., dissenting.)

In tbe District Court of Honolulu, the following charge was entered against the defendant and two others:

“Poon .Kwai Leung, of Honolulu, Island of Oahu, being duly sworn says:

“That Wong Shui King, Sze To Yook and Won Kow, being-persons of envious and evil and wicked mind, maliciously, wickedly and unlawfully contriving and intending to injure, oppress and vilify one Poon Kwai Leung, this affiant, and to bring him into contempt, scandal, infamy and disgrace, on the 23rd day of September, in the year of our Lord, nineteen hundred and…

2Cases cited2 opinions

  1. Hanson v. Globe Newspaper Co.Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1893
  2. Provisional Government v. SmithHawaii Supreme Court · 1893

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