STATE v. NAM SING SHAK

No. 4718.

446 P.2d 559 (1968)

STATE of Hawaii, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. Clarence NAM SING SHAK, Defendant-Appellant.

Supreme Court of Hawaii.

Rehearing Denied November 18, 1968.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Joseph A. Ryan, Honolulu (Ryan & Ryan, Honolulu, of counsel), for defendant-appellant.

Dennis Ing, Deputy Pros. Atty., City & County of Honolulu, for plaintiff-appellee.

Before RICHARDSON, C.J., MARUMOTO, ABE, and LEVINSON, JJ., and OKINO, Circuit Judge, assigned by reason of vacancy.


LEVINSON, Justice.

The protracted litigation in this case began when a Honolulu district magistrate found the defendant-appellant guilty of contempt of court on September 22, 1965, for failing to appear in court in response to a penal summons. The sentence imposed was ten days' confinement in jail.

The conviction was thereafter unsuccessfully appealed to the circuit court and to this court, and a writ of certiorari to the United States Supreme Court was subsequently...

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