§806-50 Standing mute. If any person being arraigned upon or charged with any offense, stands mute of malice, or will not answer directly to the indictment, the court (if it shall so think fit) may order the proper officer to enter a plea of "not guilty" on behalf of that person, and the plea so entered shall have the same force and effect as if the person had actually pleaded the same. [L 1876, c 40, §37; RL 1925, §4071; RL 1935, §5520; RL 1945, §10823; RL 1955, §258-33; HRS §711-50; ren L 1972, c 9, pt of §1]
Rules of Court
Pleas, see HRPP rule 11.
Case Notes
Proper for court to enter plea of not guilty. 9 H. 181, 187 (1893); 9 H. 641, 653 (1895); 13 H. 413, 419 (1901).
Structure Hawaii Revised Statutes
Title 38. Procedural and Supplementary Provisions
806. Criminal Procedure: Circuit Courts
806-2 Inapplicable to district courts.
806-6 Use of; furnishing of copy.
806-7 Preparation of indictment, complaint, or information; true bill by grand jury.
806-8 Prosecution where indictment not essential.
806-9 Information, laws applicable.
806-17 Circuits constitute district for criminal trial by jury.
806-21 Joinder of defendants; accessories, receivers.
806-22 Joinder of charges against defendant.
806-26 Meaning of words and phrases.
806-27 Indictment; defects and omissions.
806-28 Characterization of the act.
806-29 Exceptions need not be negatived.
806-30 Alternative allegations.
806-34 Sufficiency of averments as to offense and transaction.
806-35 Property owned by more than one.
806-36 Property owned by corporation.
806-37 Money, etc., how described.
806-38 Instrument, how described.
806-41 Ownership, not necessary to allege when.
806-46 Objections to indictment.
806-49 Arraignment; plea of not guilty.
806-51 Plea of autrefois convict or acquit.
806-60 Jury of twelve required.
806-62 Trial; order of proof and argument.
806-65 Depositions, right to inspect.
806-73 Duties and powers of probation officers; adult probation records
806-76 Court proceedings; reports to county clerk.
806-82 Prosecution of felonies by written information.
806-83 Felonies for which criminal charges may be instituted by written information.
806-86 Procedure for motion to dismiss.