(Download) "State V. Pia" by Hawaii Supreme Court " Book PDF Kindle ePub Free
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- Title: State V. Pia
- Author : Hawaii Supreme Court
- Release Date : January 26, 1973
- Genre: Law,Books,Professional & Technical,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 51 KB
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Defendants were arrested and charged by separate counts of an information with transgressions of two misdemeanor statutes. Count one charged the violation of HRS § 724-5 (Supp. 1972), which makes it an offense to commit an assault or battery on a police officer in the performance of his duties with the intent to obstruct that officer in the discharge of those duties.*fn1 Count two charged the violation of HRS § 740-11, which proscribes, inter alia, willful interference with a police officer while such officer is lawfully executing his duties.*fn2 Both counts of the information were framed in terms which for the most part recited the bare language of the aforementioned statutes. The only specific factual allegations were the names of the defendants, the date upon which the offenses were committed, and the name of the police officer assertedly interfered with and assaulted. All of these facts were the same in both counts. Subsequently, however, the prosecution was allowed without objection to amend the second count to specify that the official duties of the officer interfered with by the defendants were "breaking up a fight and making arrests."