Case ID: nys_7/html/0662-02.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "Per Curiam.", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

People v. Perlstein et al.
    
    
      (Common Pleas of New York City and County, General Term.
    
    December 2, 1889.)
    Bail—Judgment on Forfeited Recognizance—Vacation.
    A judgment on a forfeited recognizance will be vacated, where the surety after-wards produces the accused in court, and he pleads guilty, and pays a fine.
    Application to vacate judgment against Meyer S. Perlstein, as principal, and one Wollowitz, as surety, entered on forfeited recognizance.
    Argued before Larremore, C. J., and Daly and Van Hoesen, JJ.
    
      J. R. Fellows, Dist. Atty., for the People. Samuel J. Crook, for defendant.
   Per Curiam.

The prisoner was accused of publicly offering merchandise for sale on Sunday, and held to bail in the sum of $100. The recognizance was forfeited on the 21st day of February, 1889, on which day he failed to appear for trial. On the 3d day of June following the surety caused the prisoner to be produced in court. He pleaded guilty, and a fine of five dollars was imposed upon him, which he paid. The application should be granted.