Case ID: ky-op_9/html/0160-01.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "Judge Lindsay:", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

T. S. Coleman v. Commonwealth.
    Bail Bond — Surrender of Prisoner.
    One who has signed a bail bond is not discharged from liability thereon by surrendering the prisoner to the sheriff, when such surrender is not accompanied with a certified copy of the bail bond as required by the statute.
    APPEAL PROM PENDLETON CIRCUIT COURT.
    September 29, 1876.
   Opinion by

Judge Lindsay:

The appellant signed the bail bond. It therefore appears upon the face of that instrument that he undertook that the defendant should appear in the Pendleton Circuit Court to answer any indictment that might be found against him.

The answer states that the appellant surrendered the accused to the jailer of Pendleton county, and that the latter received him into custody, but as the bail cannot lawfully make such a surrender, and as the jailer cannot legally accept the custody of the prisoner until the conditions of Sec. 81 of the Criminal Code of practice have been complied with, the answer was defective in failing to show that the surrender was accompanied with a certified copy of the bail bond. The demurrer was therefore properly sustained.

A. R. Clark, for appellant.

Moss, for appellee.

Judgment affirmed.