The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1907-01-12
CHANGES IN
LEGAL WAYS


Itll'ltI I' lfiE CHIEF J'HI I'H .
Judge DE Bolt has filed his annual
report with chief Justice Fro1r for the
year 1906 for l1a First Circuit. THE
report recommends Un increase 600 cine
salaries of court clerks from 500 t0
$50 per month. The judge recommends
legislation that win provide that 100
clerk shall Dee appointed commissioner,
trustee. executor guardian or other
such officer except possibly master. lt|
this view be accepted ana the clerks be
eligible To- only masterships then sail
airy of S125 would DE sufficient The
h1uins should be made ex-omcio clerks
with salaries at 500 per month. The
stenographcrs of the circuit should re-
ceive q salary Of 5000 a month. The
salaries of Hawaiian, Chinese and Jap
anese interpreters should be fixed at
S125 a month and special interpreters
at S. a day.
The report favors the abolishment Of
terms of court and that the circuit
court shall be continually i'm session ex-|
cept on non-judicial days That the
costs i'm appeals from thrd istrict and
circuit courts, be increased IN order to
check frivilous appeals; the fees and
expenses Of jurors or a large portion
thereof, should be taxed as costs
against the losing party in civil actions
and against the defendant when con-
victed in criminal cases, except where
the sentence is for life or death. A
person desiring a jury in a civil case
should be required to deposit in ad-
vance a sum of money sufficient to
cover the fees of twelve jurors for one
day and that he Furthermore be requir-
ed to give timely notice of his trial de-
sire for a jury trial, otherwise he will
be presumed to have waived such trial.
Other amendments suggested are:
Fees of Jurors. That jurors be al
lowed SO per day as fees for their SER
vices, and one dollar for their verdict.
Act 81, Laws of 1905. That, in the
event terms of court are not abolished,
then the proviso in said act, chat no
jury trial. in any civil action, shall be
commenced at any term of said Circuit
Court for the First Circuit, after sixty
]
! less, etc., to be repealed or stricken
out
| Section 223O, r. /. That said section
| be amended so as to clearly prescribe
| the form and character of the summons
/ to be issued in suits for divorce and
! the time within which the same shall
/ be returnable.
! Section 239L, R. L. That said section
be amended so that the publication now
! thereby required to be "at least six
times" shall clearly prescribe whether
such publication shall be six days, six
weeks, six months, or other definite
/ periods of time.
Act 81, Laws of 1905. That the Coun-
ty Sheriffs and Deputy County Sheriffs
, be given the same powers in matters
of attachment that the High Sheriff
and his deputy now have under said
act.
Assignment of Counsel. That in Grim
inal cases where the defendant is
charged by indictment with murder in
the first degree and has no money,
property or means with which to en-
play counsel, and is otherwise unable
to secure counsel for his defense, the
court, in assigning counsel in such
case, shall also order that all reason
able and necessary expenses incurred
in such defense, including a transcript
of the shorthand reporters notes, to-
gether with a fee for his counsel, not
to exceed the sum of one hundred dol
lars, to be paid out of the public funds
The report also contains tables of
statistics comparing the work of the
circuit with the previous year and also
telling Of the character and number of
trials and convictions.