§660-23 Evading service, penalties. The liabilities and penalties of section 660-22 shall also be imposed upon any person who, having in that person's custody or under that person's power any person entitled to a writ of habeas corpus, with intent to elude the service of the writ or to avoid the effect thereof, transfers the person to the custody or places the person under the control or power of any other person, or conceals the person or changes the person's place of confinement. [L 1870, c 32, §27; RL 1925, §2746; RL 1935, §4331; RL 1945, §10372; RL 1955, §239-23; HRS §660-23; am L 2016, c 55, §39]