2013 Hawaii Revised Statutes
TITLE 38. PROCEDURAL AND SUPPLEMENTARY PROVISIONS
806. Criminal Procedure: Circuit Courts
806-18 Change of venue.


HI Rev Stat § 806-18 (2013) What's This?

§806-18 Change of venue. It shall be lawful for any court of record or judge thereof, at any state of any criminal proceedings depending therein, whether the venue be by law local or not, to order that the venue be changed, and to direct that the trial be had in Honolulu or in some particular judicial circuit, in such cases and for such reasons as the justice of the case may require, and subject to such conditions as the court or judge may, in its or the judge's discretion, impose. [L 1876, c 40, §13; RL 1925, §4032; RL 1935, §5496; RL 1945, §10797; RL 1955, §258-7; HRS §711-18; ren L 1972, c 9, pt of §1; gen ch 1985]

Cross References

Change of venue, see §603-37.

Rules of Court

See HRPP rules 21, 22.

Case Notes

Change of venue granted to facilitate production of evidence. 9 H. 360.

Change of venue lies in sound discretion of court. 11 H. 314; 46 H. 183, 377 P.2d 728.

See 3 H. 90.

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