Young
Young v. Territory of Hawaii
Opinion
Lead Opinion
Garrecht, J.
The appellants were convicted by a jury in the First Circuit Court of Hawaii of the crimes of murder in the second degree and abortion. The judgment of conviction was affirmed by the Supreme Court of the Territory of Hawaii. 37 Haw. 189 .
A careful reading of the 1,000-page printed record convinces us that the appel-lee adduced ample evidence to sustain the conviction. Summarized, the evidence was as follows:
The appellant Young was a licensed physician of the Territory, and also of the British Empire. The appellant Nozawa described herself as a “nurse” employed in the appellant Young’s office, but Dr. Young testified that it would be “more appropriate” to describe her as his “office girl”.
On September 19, 1942, Mrs. Gladys Tai Yee, twenty years old, the mother of two children, called at the office of Dr. Ho Quong Pang, her family physician, for the *491 purpose of ascertaining whether she was pregnant. Judging from the history of her case and relying also upon his own findings, Dr. Pang believed that she was about four weeks pregnant, and he so informed her. She wanted the doctor “to do something to bring on menstruation”, but he told her that he “would not perform an…