HRS §806-39
How to describe documents in criminal charges
Read the official text at capitol.hawaii.gov ↗When a criminal charge needs to mention a document, it is enough to call it by its usual name or say what it is. You do not have to attach a copy or write out the whole document.
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In all other cases whenever it is necessary to make any averment in any indictment as to any instrument, whether the same consists wholly or in part of writing, print, or figures, it shall be sufficient to describe the instrument by any name or designation by which the same may be usually known, or by the purport thereof, without setting out any copy or facsimile of the whole or any part thereof.
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