Case ID: dc_5/html/0484-01.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "(Cranch, C. J.,", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

United States v. W. S. Smith.
    A certificate, in tie usual form, by tlie officers of the Treasury of the United States, that a certain balance is due by the defendant to the United States, is not sufficient cause for bail.
    The United States had filed an account from the Treasury, certified in the manner required by the statute, stating merely a balance of $11,000 due by the defendant.
    
      Mr. W. L. Brent, for the defendant,
    moved for leave to appear without special bail; and state.d that this Court had decided that a mere statement from the Treasury, of a balance due, was not even prima facie evidence on the trial, and, therefore, is not sufficient to hold the defendant to bail.
   The CouRT

(Cranch, C. J.,

not sitting in the case,) permitted the defendant to appear without special bail.