Tong Kai v. Territory of Hawaii

OPINION OP THE COURT BY

PERRY, J.

(Galbraith, J., dissenting.)

Tbe plaintiff in error was tried, convicted and sentenced for violating Section 255 of tbe Penal Laws". Eleven errors are assigned. Tbe first and tenth assignments are abandoned. Tbe *613second, third and fourth are that it does not appear that the grand jurors who indicted the plaintiff in error were good and lawful men of the First Circuit, that with the exception of the foreman it does not appear that not less than twelve grand jurors found a true bill against the plaintiff and that the grand jury was instructed, in effect, not to…