Case ID: pa_4/html/0455-01.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "Bell, J.", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

Commonwealth ex rel. Morgan v. Heilman and Another.
    Exceptions to the bail are waived by filing a declaration, but the bail is not discharged.
    
      Jan. 16. To a hah. corp. the respondents returned they held the relator under a bail-piece; that they had entered bail to the sheriff, and executed a bail-bond in an action on the case against Morgan, and the plaintiff filed exceptions; that respondents never justified, nor wms any additional bail entered, the amount having been.reduced by the court, on a rule to show cause of action, and why defendant should not be discharged on common bail; that the sheriff afterwards returned the writ “ C. C. and B. B., and respondents bail.” That a declaration was subsequently filed, &c., and verdict and judgment obtained, on which the relator was arrested.
    
      St. Geo. Campbell, for the relator,
    cited Filler v. Bryson, 6 Watts & Serg. 566, as deciding that the bail was discharged by exception taken, and no justification.
    
      Jan. 16.
   Bell, J.

The exceptions are waived by proceeding, but it is not a discharge of the bail.

The prisoner was remanded.