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IN THE MATTER OF HELEN MARTELES

No. 2756.

38 Haw. 479 (1950)

IN THE MATTER OF THE APPLICATION OF HELEN MARTELES FOR A WRIT OF HABEAS CORPUS.

Supreme Court of Hawai`i.

Decided April 20, 1950.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

M.L. Heen and B. Houston for petitioner.

J.R. Desha, Assistant Public Prosecutor, for the Territory.

KEMP, C.J., LE BARON AND TOWSE, JJ.

OPINION OF THE COURT BY LE BARON, J.

This is an application for a writ of habeas corpus to the supreme court for the discharge of the petitioner from further imprisonment in the city jail by the respondent. The ground therefor is that such imprisonment constitutes an illegal restraint resulting from an unlawful and void increase of punishment pursuant to a circuit court's sentence which aggravated a district magistrate's sentence...

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