HRS §806-9
Same rules for cases started by information as by indictment
This section says that all the legal rules that apply to criminal cases started by an indictment also apply to cases started by an information. This includes rules about court filings, trials, punishments, and appeals. It makes the two types of cases follow the same procedures.
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The statute, as written — Information, laws applicable
All provisions of law applying to prosecutions upon indictments, to writs and process therein, and the issuing and service thereof, to motions, pleadings, trials, and punishments, or the passing or execution of any sentence, and to all proceedings in cases of indictment, whether in the court of original or appellate jurisdiction, shall in the same manner and to the same extent as near as may be, apply to information and all prosecutions and proceedings thereon.
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