EX PARTE DUNCAN

Nos. 10763, 10774.

146 F.2d 576 (1944)

Ex parte DUNCAN. KAHANAMOKU, Sheriff, v. DUNCAN. Ex parte WHITE. STEER, Provost Marshal, Central Pacific Area, v. WHITE.

Circuit Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit.

Writ of Certiorari Granted February 12, 1945.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Edward J. Ennis, Sp. Asst. to the Atty. Gen., and G. D. Crozier, U. S. Atty., of Honolulu, Hawaii (Myron C. Cramer, Major General, The Judge Advocate General, U. S. Army, and William J. Hughes, Jr., Lt. Colonel, Judge Advocate General's Dept., both of Washington, D. C. and Eugene V. Slattery, Lt. Colonel, Judge Advocate General's Dept. U. S. Army, and Edward A. Towse, Asst. U. S. Atty., both of Honolulu, Hawaii, John L. Burling, Nanette Dembitz, and Elmer Million, Attys., War Division, Dept. of Justice, all of Washington, D. C., of counsel), for appellants.

Garner Anthony of Honolulu, Hawaii (Robertson, Castle & Anthony, of Honolulu, Hawaii, of counsel), for appellee Duncan.

Fred Patterson and E. J. Botts, both of Honolulu, Hawaii, and Herbert Chamberlin of San Francisco, Cal., for appellee White.

Marguerite K. Ashford, J. Russell Cades, Phil Cass, William H. Heen, Marshall B. Henshaw, Harry R. Hewitt, Livingston Jenks, Ernest K. Kai, Herbert K. H. Lee, Charles F. Parsons, D. Hebden Porteus, E. White Sutton, and Heaton L. Wrenn, all of Honolulu, Hawaii, for Bar Association of Hawaii, amicus curiae.

Wayne M. Collins, of San Francisco, Cal. (Osmond K. Fraenkel and Arthur Garfield Hays, both of New York City, and A. L. Wirin, of Los Angeles, Cal., of counsel), for American Civil Liberties Union, amicus curiae.

Before WILBUR, GARRECHT, DENMAN, MATHEWS, STEPHENS, and HEALY, Circuit Judges.


Writ of Certiorari Granted February 12, 1945. See 65 S.Ct. 677.

HEALY, Circuit Judge.

The appeal in each of these cases is from a judgment of the United States District Court for the Territory of Hawaii sustaining a petition for a writ of habeas corpus and ordering the discharge of the petitioner.

In case No. 10,774 the essential facts are as follows: Appellee Harry E. White is a citizen of the United States and of the Territory of Hawaii. On August...

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