Show JUDGE correspondence of associated frees honolulu 1 elarch 16 via ran francisco march 27 walter G smith editor of the advertiser was fotina guilty of contempt by the three judges of the first circuit court and waa sen fenced toa thirty daj in jail on account of alic cartoon ho published in connection with alie case of one I cCarthy charged with assault and battery in the first degree mccarthy biad previously been found mayhem but was released by car on the ground that the irime 1 not defined in the dawain statutes during the of ahe second trial for assault and battery the advertiser published a cartoon which represented judge sear in the attitude of blessing a tough looking citizen who was assaulting saul ting a woman by biting her ear the supreme court at once issued u writ of habeas corpus returnable april 2 on which the editor is now at liberty under thie V rit issued by chief justice frear smith is held on bonds to appear April 21 the circuit court judges met thi afternoon en bacani ba cand decided that the court aril was void having been issued without the defendant being brought before the court the circuit judges bield that smith is in contempt while the supreme court allowed him to go free and the matter will probably be submitted to washington |