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EX PARTE WHITE

Habeas Corpus No. 300.

66 F.Supp. 982 (1944)

Ex parte WHITE.

District Court, Hawaii.

May 2, 1944.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Fred Patterson and E. J. Botts, both of Honolulu, T. H., for petitioner.

G. D. Crozier, U. S. Dist. Atty., and Edward A. Towse, Asst. U. S. Dist. Atty., both of Honolulu, T. H., Edward J. Ennis, Sp. Asst. to Atty. Gen. of the United States, and Lieut. Col. William J. Hughes, Jr., Judge Advocate General's Department, both of Washington, D. C., and Lieut. Col. Eugene V. Slattery, Office of the Military Governor, of Honolulu, T. H., for respondent, William F. Steer, Colonel, Infantry, U. S. Army, Provost Marshal, Central Pacific Area.

McLAUGHLIN, District Judge.

In this habeas corpus proceeding the pertinent facts are as follows:

I. Historical Facts.

(a) On the afternoon of December 7, 1941, the Governor of Hawaii, J. B. Poindexter, invoked Section 67 of the Hawaiian Organic Act1 and by proclamation placed the Territory under martial law; suspended the privilege of the writ of habeas corpus; and delegated to the Commanding General of the Hawaiian Department...

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