STATE v. WONG

No. 4461.

430 P.2d 330 (1967)

STATE of Hawaii v. James Keawehalu WONG.

Supreme Court of Hawaii.

Rehearing Denied August 21, 1967.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Myer C. Symonds, Honolulu, for defendant-appellant.

T. Irving Chang, Deputy Prosecuting Atty., City & County of Honolulu, Honolulu (John H. Peters, Prosecuting Atty., with him on the brief), for plaintiff-appellee.

Before RICHARDSON, C. J., and MIZUHA, MARUMOTO, ABE and LEVINSON, JJ.


LEVINSON, Justice.

The question that we are required to answer in this appeal is whether in the totality of circumstances in which a confession was obtained it was voluntary and could be constitutionally used as evidence by the prosecution in a trial that began September 8, 1964. We hold that it was not.

Defendant-Appellant, James Keawehalu Wong, hereafter referred to as "defendant," was an inmate at the Hawaii State Prison (formerly known as Oahu Prison)...

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