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MATTER OF APPL. OF PALAKIKO AND MAJORS

No. 2877.

39 Haw. 141 (1951)

IN THE MATTER OF THE APPLICATION OF JOHN PALAKIKO AND JAMES EDWARD MAJORS FOR A WRIT OF HABEAS CORPUS.

Supreme Court of Hawaii.

Argued September 22, 1951.

Decided October 9, 1951.

nunc pro tunc as of September 22, 1951.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Harriet Bouslog, M.C. Symonds and H.M. Greenstein for Mary Palakiko Krusynski, petitioner.

W.D. Ackerman, Jr., Attorney General, and M. Watanabe, Assistant Attorney General, amici curiae.

LE BARON, J.

nunc pro tunc as of September 22, 1951.

OPINION OF LE BARON, J.

This is a petition for a writ of habeas corpus, addressed to the supreme court of Hawaii, but presented by the petitioner to me as a justice of that court. It prays that the warden of Oahu Prison be commanded to produce the bodies of John Palakiko and James Edward Majors, convicted murderers under sentences of death from the first circuit court of the Territory awaiting execution on the gallows...

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