Court Opinion

ID: 8047178
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2022-09-09 04:00:39.164273+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T16:37:32.763938
License: Public Domain

Perley, C. J.
The two justices, before whom the defendant’s application for his discharge from arrest was heard, permitted him to withdraw the application before any decision was made on.the question of his right to be discharged, and no decision or judgment was given in that proceeding. The case in this respect would seem to stand on the same footing as a nonsuit with the permission of thfe court in a suit at law.
In case of an arrest on mesne process by virtue of an affidavit endorsed on the writ, the statute provides, that, " at the return term of such, writ, the defendant may move the court to be discharged, or that his bail or sureties may be discharged, and the court, upon satisfactory evidence that the defendant does not conceal his estate, and does not intend to leave the State, may order such discharge.” Nothing done in this case on the application to the justices will prevent an application to the court for the discharge of the defendant’s bail, and the court should have entertained the motion. What would have been the effect of a decision by the two justices refusing his discharge need not now be considered.