The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1889-05-21
COURT NOTES FROM RILO.

Synopsis of the Proceedings, Giving a
View OF the Large Quantity Of
Work Being Done.
We have been permitted to make the
following extracts from private letter
received per last mail of the Kinau:
To show the vast amount OF business
before the Circuit Court during the first
week of the term, the writer says, the
Court kept long hours, from 9 a. m. to
y m, and from l to ) 80 p. m, and on
two days as late as 10 p. IN.
Lipiue for murder was acquitted on
the defense of insanity, and the Court
committed him to the Insane Asylum,
which power is delegated to it by an Act
of the Legislature passed in 1862. DR..
Mouritz gave very clear testimony in
the case, and the writer thinks the jury
were justified in their verdict. The
Staying was entirely without motive and
very sudden. The trial occupied one
whole day.
The next case was that Of J. W. kekoa
Tor an assault with 2 loaded pistol on a
Japanese to make him pay his taxes
So 80. Testimony for the prosecution
was given by japanese and Portuguese.
The jury rendered unanimous verdict
of not guilty. Mr.. Rosa appeared Tor
the defense.
On Thursday May 9th) an appeal
case against Kealakaula for larceny OF
a forty-five cent bucket was tried and
the defendant acquitted. Joseph Ma
Wahi appeared for the defendant.
The next case was that OF kekahuna
and Kaaanui, brother and sister for
incest. A request by counsel for the
defendants (Messrs Achi and NawahD
that if the Jury believed that one kepa
and not Kekahuna opened the door
when the constables came, they must
aCquit the defendants, was overruled by
the Court. The jury rendered verdict
of not guilty.
On Friday May 10TH Kama Kulinui
was tried for malicious injury IN cutting
up a faded horse in a most cruel way
when half drunk. John w. Kalua APP
peared for the defense. The jury were
out from II 80 a. IN. to about 10 p. m.
arguing the case. A unanimous verdict
of guilty was returned.
The last case for Hawaiian jurors was
that of Kaluna, who was tried for may
hem, biting a woman's lip off at Puma
when intoxicated with sour potato and
ava. The jury, on which were three
talesmen, after few hours, returned a
verdict of guilty, three dissenting. The
defendants request after verdict to poll
the jury, was Oyerruled by the Court.
A. Rosa for defendant.
Saturday May IL was devoted to the
hearing of civil cases and divorces. A
prominent member of the bar, probably
l., Coz h1vSI no.
before the Court this morning, had to be
wakened out of sleep to attend hear
ing The Court cOunseled with the
lawyer.
In the afternoon after the weeks work
the writer says His Honor the Chief
Justice rode over the new road to the
Volcano for several miles. The Judge
was heard to remark that it (the road
promises to be a beautiful drive when
completed.
The foreign jurors were in attendance
on Monday MAY 49,, to try two Japan
csc for very bad assault on a China
man, cutting his left hand nearly OFT.
Mr. Katsura, the Japanese lawyer, de-
tended, and had a lot OF witnesses to
prove an alibi. The trial lasted all day,
and the jury returned unanimous YER
dict of guilty. Yagi and Yahuchi are
the names Vi Tic OClGilbCtILJo'
Messrs. Neumann AND '. '. Ashford
were urging that the Chinese (Aki ct al. }
murder case with the accessories before
and after the fact shall be tried in Homo
lulu. A motion to change the same was
argued and overruled and a demurrer for
ioinder of the accessories with the prln-
cipal.
The man for malicious injury was SEN
fenced to four months and costs; and the
defendant in the mayhem case to two
wears and 800 fine and costs.
Jack for HOUSEKEEPING and stealing
the safe and 5000 was sentenced to four
years, as this was a second oftense.
A Portuguese for furious riding, plead
! guilty and was fined $50 and costs; and
| several persons for selling liquor without
/ license have paid up fines and costs.
! A prisoner in for larceny OF turkeys
and sentenced to 10 months by the Puma
magistrate was released on habeas
! corpus, the statute authorizing only one
year.
The Court was engaged Monday eve
ming, hearing argument on plea Of
autrefois convict in a Portuguese man
slaughter case from KOhala, he having
been convicted of an assault and fined
$25, in the Police Court, from which he
/ appealed before the assailed had died
! The Court Overruled the plea, but sus
tanned a similar plea in another case o
prisoners who had been convicted under
Section OF the gaming Act OF 1886 anC
were now charged under Section 3 OF the
same Act on the same state of facts.
The whole OF Tuesday May IA wai
spent in trying to get jury in the Ho
nomu murder case,-The King vs.. Ak
! and others. On "Wednesday the 18th a
l p. IN. after examining seventy five
Jurors, the parties succeeded in gettIn:
twelve men Who were not objected to
and being sworn as jurors to try the case
the trial proceeded. The Attorney Gen
eral opened the case on behalf OF tn
Prosecution. Case still on when IT,,
steamer left.
After this case there were some fifteel
more on the calendar and it is not likel
that the Court will return to Honolulu
until about May Goth. 1t is a heav
| term.
The Court and members OF the ba
were all well at last accounts.
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