Case ID: dc_4/html/0478-01.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "The Court", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

United States v. George Milburn.
    When the marshal has arrested a person charged with 'a misdemeanor, he may take him to a justice of the peace, to give bail, by way of recognizance, for his appearance in Court to answer for the offence; and the marshal is not bound to take the bail-bond himself.
    A recognizance, thus taken by the justice, is valid.
    
      SciRE facias upon a recognizance taken by a justice of the peace, upon a capias ad respondendum for a misdemeanor in keeping a public gaming-house.
    Plea, nul tiel record, and issue.
    
      Mr. Brent, for the defendant,
    contended that the recognizance was void. That the marshal had no right to carry the defendant to a justice of the peace to give bail, but should have taken it himself, under the Maryland Act of 1780, c. 10; and that the justice had no authority to take the recognizance.
    
      Mr. Key, for the United States, contra.
    
    The act ,was made for the ease of the sheriff; it is only peremptory as to the amount in which the sheriff is to take the bond, when he takes it, not that he shall take it in all cases. It was to enlarge the power of the sheriff.
   The Court

ordered judgment to be entered upon the recognizance, being of opinion that the justice had power to take it.