Hawaii Holomua, Volume II, Number 15, 5 ʻOkakopa 1894 — HAWAII’S “ BLUE” LAWS [ARTICLE]

HAWAII’S “ BLUE” LAWS

C0NSTITUTI0N and LAWS Framed bv the Missionaries LAWS of tlie HAWAIIAN ISLANDS. 12 Tho jury ahall be &ppointed in the foJlowing msnaer The Q n-ernor of t‘ie Island of Hawaii aml the Reprefl«ntative« of that Island s*:all uuile, and select forty. wiae, rotlecting, just mon. not fix>lish men, not men of anger. not intomperate men, they ahall aeleel none but ju«t men, and shall write their several narnes on sODarateJpiecefl of paper of the sarao kind. and sha!l deposit the pipene iu a box. When preparation is m ilūng by the govornor for an important tria1, then tho box shall bo carrieii into his presonce and iho tax officer oraome oth:*r officor ahall draw out twelvc nimea witbout V. previously looking at them. Theae mou, thnfl drawn shall constituto the jury for thnt court. 13 The inauner nf foiraing a jury af Maui. Oahn. and Kauai s'iall be the saroe as that pre«crihed for Hawaii. There sball be no jury tri.ils hiek in tho cmntry bat only at ihe residence of the Oovernor and in his presonce. If tho supreme judges bring a man to trial who has heen previously tried by a jury no mau who was on the former jury shall be permitte<l to sit upon the new one. An entirety new jury ahall be clrawn. 1-4 The pay of every native man called to sit on a jary ahall be a qnarter of a do'Iar per d*y But if the trial be bei’*re the supreme judges t!ien the pay shall be half a dollar per day. If the trial be f>r a crim nal offenco *nd the c<*m* plainl be n t S'istain» d then th** G >reroment nnall pr»y th«* j r> . So lso if the tral b•f >r * higb crime. and tbe rnan is e udem »ed t s .ff rd • th. <»r b n<shm -nt or t» w rc at h *rd labor. in <11 s <cb cas-s th.> 0 v rmn •it shall pay Ihe j »ry. B t for siu >11 .>ffe<i<*es pa .i- iab e by ho**, wh re Iho inao lii us lf de uu <ds tli j <ry. u soc'i e s ** ho snl' p y them, hut frm t»vt»e ty fiv • d<d «m prev >as y puid ioto the h «nds of thv ju<lg-<. 15 Fr* ign jarivs aiiall be app.»inted n t : <e f llow ng maoner whsre there ar • s ifficient nciober of f >rvigners. T ivre are only tw . plaeea where ibere is a sufficieut namber of for,‘igners l*> j :st fy tho bo!d ug of a s-s.-<ion of the Sapreme Court among them, for ia eupilal crmies tbe jury mu»t neTvr b.* le«s than twelve in n imber. In cjbo of . tber off*nces the nnmbcr miy be less but nvver be!ow eighl. T:ie f<»llowing pers>ns shall »e!ect tb« jarymen riz. Tbe Govern»r. the tax officer of the plaee, aud the Uopre9ectative and Repreeentatives of lh.il part : cular Islan l, and lhey shall be seiected io the following manner: The a,.poioting officers sha!l aaseiable aod eall to mind »uch foreign n» aa are jast and qaiet in their liws. not angry persoos ncr drankards. bat 9uch as are thougbt to be wiae, and lover? cf peaee. Tne nimes of these pereons shall thea be wntteo separately on small pieee* of paper of the same kind. an»l the papers shall be pat into a small box preparvd f»r tbe pcryose. Oo Oahu, there *ball b« forty se!ected, on fifteen. On Hawaii and Kauai it ahall b* d scretionary with ihe Gov mor».