Summit Fidelity & Surety Co. v. Police Jury of Rapides Parish

HAWTHORNE, Justice.

In this case the Court of Appeal found that the power of the Governor under Article 5, Section 10, of the Constitution to remit fines and forfeitures includes the authority to remit a forfeited bail bond, but concluded that this constitutional provision does not give the Governor authority to remit a bail bond forfeiture after the funds have been disbursed to the governmental units and officers having a statutory right to share in them. On this theory it affirmed a judgment of the lower court dismissing the suit instituted by plaintiff Summit Fidelity and Surety Company to…