9 Watts 142 | Pa. | 1839
The opinion of the court was delivered by
If the right to the money secured by the judgment on the recognizance was a vested right, the governor had no power to remit it. But the question is, was it so vested? In King & Codington v. Reedman, Cro. C. 199, it is held,- that the costs for which a judgment has been given are not remitted by a pardon of the offence subsequent to the judgment: and the reason is, that there was an interest in private persons; but in every other respect, as is there held, the pardon operated as a discharge. And such is the force of a pardon, that even in the case of costs they are discharged
Judgment affirmed.