Case: TERRITORY v. CATALINO BITONIO, ET AL.
Abbreviation: Territory v. Bitonio
Court: Supreme Court of the Territory of Hawaii
Jurisdiction: Hawaii
Decision Date: 1924-06-09
Docket Number: No. 1538
Citation: 27 Haw. 861
Volume: 27
Reporter: Hawaii Reports
Parties: TERRITORY v. CATALINO BITONIO, ET AL.
Pages: 861–861

TERRITORY v. CATALINO BITONIO, ET AL.
No. 1538.
Exceptions prom Circuit Court First Circuit. Hon. F. Andrade, Judge.
H. K. Ashford, Special Deputy City and County Attorney (W. H. Seen, City and County Attorney, and J. O. Kelley, Deputy City and County Attorney, on the brief), for the Territory.
Marguerite K. Ashford for Lee Sing (Watson & Lymer on the briefs for Chun How, and Thompson, Oath-cart & Beebe with her on the briefs for Lee Sing).
Argued June 9, 1924.
Decided June 9, 1924.
Peters, C. J., Perry and Lindsay, JJ.

oral OPINION.
The power of a court to relieve from a forfeiture of a bail bond includes the power to relieve upon terms, spoken of in the authorities as “partial remission.” This power the trial judge did not believe the circuit court to possess in the absence of statute. The contention of the Territory that the court exercised its discretion and hence unless abused, its denial of the motion of the sureties is not reviewable, is not borne out by the judge’s opinion. He denied the existence in the court of the power to partially remit and in this there was error.
The exceptions of the sureties are sustained and the cause remanded for further proceedings not inconsistent with this opinion.