R v Wakabayashi

R v Wakabayashi Researcher Monique F. Ulysses Researcher Lauren Chalaturnyk Metadata author Connell Parish Metadata author Gordon Lyall

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Rex v Wakabayashi, [1928] 39 BCR 310 Ichizo Wakabayashi pled guilty to selling cocaine and morphine without an appropriate license, and received three years imprisonment. He then initiated habeas corpus proceedings to challenge this sentence, arguing that the Opium and Narcotics Act, 1923, ch. 22, was ultra vires the Dominion Parliament. Justice W.A. Macdonald declared that the Act was “within the competence of the Dominion Parliament,” and refused Wakabayashi’s application for release. Plaintiffs The Crown Defendants Wakabayashi Judges Justice of Canada Macdonald Other Lore Yip