Territory v. Chee Siu

Citations

• 25 Haw. 814
• 1921 Haw. LEXIS 39

Syllabus

<p>Sodomy.</p> <p>The morbid rule announced by some early day English and American courts to the effect that in a prosecution for sodomy emission must be proved, cannot be accepted as the true doctrine of the common law.</p> <p>Indictment and Information — charging crime in cliferent 'forms of expression.</p> <p>The fact that the one crime is charged more than once in equivalent or synonymous expressions is not fatal to the indictment.</p> <p>Appeal and Error — instruction.</p> <p>Where the instruction is not couched in the identical language of the statute and might be misunderstood the mere saving of an exception to it without request for further instructions presents no error on appeal.</p> <p>Same — rejected evidence.</p> <p>The refusal of the trial court to allow an answer to a question propounded by counsel for the ’ defendant to a witness is not reversible error when the record does not disclose any offer to show what the answer will be and that the answer would be material and competent evidence.</p>