The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1902-10-15
NO PACKING
OF JUR|ES
Now Draw Grand
and Petit Jurors
By Lot.
EN- BANG RULING
Is NOT OBSERVED
Gear Will Flock by Himself Next
Gear Will Flock by Himself Next
Term-Jurors Entitled
to Pay.

Jurors will be drawn by lot in the
first and third divisions of the First
Circuit Court in the future. Yesterday
Judge De Bolt summoned a grand and
petit jury for the November term of
court under the old Hawaiian jury law
and Judge Robinson will also call al
petit jury by lot today.
Both judges will sit concurrently dur
ing the November term and hear jury
cases. De Bolt will have the criminal
business to look after while Robinson
will hear civil cases. This knocks out
the en- banc ruling of Humphreys and
Gear, and the lengthy ruling of the lat
ter judge in regard to jurors serving
without pay will be honored only in the
breach. While jurors will not be paid
vouchers will be issued as usual, and
the government will be left to provide
for their payment through the legisla
ture when it meets in February.
Judge Gear still sticks to his own
ruling both as to the en- banc decision
and in regard to jurors. He will not
hear term cases during November, but
will take charge of the probate calen-
dar, and if Gear persists in following
his own ruling he will be permanently
disbarred from hearing jury cases, I'M
less the legislature amends the statute.
It has been decided that one judge shall
always sit in chambers during term
time, so that Gear may perform this
duty and still stick to his principles.
Longer working hours with no inter-
ruption of the jurys work was also an
nounced for next term by Judge De
Bolt yesterday. The grand jury of
twenty-four was summoned yesterday
to appear Monday morning, November
Srd, at $50 o'clock. The names were
drawn by lot by Clerk Kellett in the
presence of the Court, from fifty names
which were taken at random off the tax
and registration lists. The old law pro-
vided that these names be divided from
among Hawaiian and foreign residents,
but this was amended by the organic
act and the names chosen are of those
qualified to act and having a knowledge
of the English language. Twenty-Five
petit jurors were also called for 1870
o'clock of the afternoon of the 3rd.
THE calendar is in a congested con-
dition," said Judge De Bolt yesterday,
land every effort will be made to clear
it up. There are between four and five
hundred cases upon the docket and
while they cannot be heard all at one
term, yet by hard work we expect to
expedite litigation For that reason
during the November term, court will
be convened at nine o'clock each morn
ing. The first half hours will be de-
voted to eX parte motions, and if these
do not take up the entire time, di
vorce case will be heard each morning.
The jury will sit from $50 to II o'clock
in the morning and from 1870 to 4:30
o'clock in the afternoon, and its work
will be absolutely free from Interrupt
ton. Nothing else viii be taken up dur
ing the sessions of the jury and we will
begin promptly and stop on time unless
there are cases which can be finished
within half an hour On Saturday
morning beginning at 9 o'clock and