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STATE v. PIA

No. 5394.

514 P.2d 580 (1973)

STATE of Hawaii, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. Hiram PIA and Arthur Pia, Defendants-Appellees.

Supreme Court of Hawaii.

September 26, 1973.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

William R. Hoge, Jr., Third Deputy County Atty. (Morris S. Shinsato, County Atty., and Arthur E. Ross, Second County Atty., County of Kauai, Lihue, on the briefs), for plaintiff-appellant.

William J. Jenner II, Deputy Public Defender, Honolulu (Donald Tsukiyama, Public Defender, and Edgar R. Worth, Deputy Public Defender, Honolulu, on the brief), for defendants-appellees.

Before RICHARDSON, C.J., and MARUMOTO, ABE, LEVINSON and KOBAYASHI, JJ.

LEVINSON, Justice.

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.1 Count two charged the violation of HRS §...

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