2009 Hawaii Code
Volume 14
TITLE 37 - HAWAII PENAL CODE
CHAPTER 708 - OFFENSES AGAINST PROPERTY RIGHTS
§708-852 - Forgery in the second degree.

     §708-852  Forgery in the second degree.  (1)  A person commits the offense of forgery in the second degree if, with intent to defraud, the person falsely makes, completes, endorses, or alters a written instrument, or utters a forged instrument, or fraudulently encodes the magnetic ink character recognition numbers, which is or purports to be, or which is calculated to become or to represent if completed, a deed, will, codicil, contract, assignment, commercial instrument, or other instrument which does or may evidence, create, transfer, terminate, or otherwise affect a legal right, interest, obligation, or status.

     (2)  Forgery in the second degree is a class C felony. [L 1972, c 9, pt of §1; am L 1988, c 155, §3; gen ch 1992; am L 1997, c 243, §3]

 

Case Notes

 

  Charges in indictment held sufficient though inarticulately drawn.  55 H. 621, 525 P.2d 571.

  There was substantial evidence which a reasonable mind might accept as adequate to convict defendant.  79 H. 175 (App.), 900 P.2d 172.

 

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