Lee Hin v. United States

The question involved in this case is whether or not Lee Hin was born in the Hawaiian Islands. He testified that he was born there; that his father and mother both died before he was old enough to know anything about them. He was about five years old at the time of his father’s death. Two witnesses testified they had known the appellant from the time he was five or six years of age. Another witness testified she had known him from the time he was ten years of age. There were only three witnesses and they all agree that the appellant was brought up in the family of a Chinese named Wong Heong. The appellant testified that his father’s name was Lee Yew, and that he had no brothers and sisters. One witness testified that Wong Heong told her that the appellant’s father’s name was Lee Yew. Another witness testified that appellant’s father’s name was Lee Yew and that he was a rice planter on Kauai. He testified that the appellant was born on Kauai, but in response to the question as to how he knew that fact he replied that the people who were working on the rice plantation with him told him so. This witness testified that he knew Lee Yew, the father, personally, but had never seen the…