Case Name: Territory of Oklahoma, on relation of Chas. M. Thacker, County Attorney in and for Greer County, Oklahoma, v. Wm. F. Reynolds, C. A. Reynolds and A. S. Woodring
Court: Oklahoma Supreme Court
Jurisdiction: Oklahoma
Decision Date: 1905-02-11
Citations: 15 Okla. 185
Docket Number: 
Parties: Territory of Oklahoma, on relation of Chas. M. Thacker, County Attorney in and for Greer County, Oklahoma, v. Wm. F. Reynolds, C. A. Reynolds and A. S. Woodring.
Judges: Beauchamp, J., absent; all the other justices concurring.
Reporter: Oklahoma Reports
Volume: 15
Pages: 185–186

Head Matter:
Territory of Oklahoma, on relation of Chas. M. Thacker, County Attorney in and for Greer County, Oklahoma, v. Wm. F. Reynolds, C. A. Reynolds and A. S. Woodring.
(Filed February 11, 1905.)
1. CRIMINAL CASES- — Bail, by Whom Taken. Courts have inherent power to take bail or recognizance in a criminal case, but clerks have such power only when it is fconferred upon them by statute.
2. SAME — Power of Clerks. Our statute does not authorize the clerk of the district court to take bail in a criminal case, and hence a bail bond taken by him is void.
(Syllabus by the Court.)
Error from the Probate Court of Greer County; before T. P. Clay, Trial Judge.
Chas. M. Thacker, County Attorney, for plaintiff in error.
No appearance for defendant in error.

Opinion:
Opinion of the court by
Hainer, J.:
This is an action on a bail bond taken in a criminal action by the deputy clerk of the district court of Greer county. The facts in this case are identical with those in the case of the Territory of Oklahoma ex rel. v. Allen, et al., cause No. 1596, decided at this term of the court, and the same question of law is involved. Upon authority of that ease, the judgment of the court below is affirmed, at the cost of plaintiff in error.
Beauchamp, J., absent; all the other justices concurring.