Court Opinion

ID: 6830398
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Date Created: 2022-07-23 19:51:29.022562+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T16:04:32.668867
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NETERER, District Judge
(after stating the facts as above). The surety company relies on Joelson v. U. S. (C. C. A.) 287 F. 106, and U. S. v. Mace (C. C. A.) 281 F. 635. I think neither of these eases are decisive.
In the Joelson Case there was no particular time and no particular place when and where the defendant was to appear, and the court said, at page 109:
“Under the terms of the contract, Rosen was under no obligations whatever to appear at any time or place before the court. This omission of the condition was a fatal defect, and the recognizance was a nullity.”
In this case, the court, the place, and the time were designated and fixed.
Nor does the case of U. S. v. Mace, supra, help the situation. In the Mace Casé Circuit Judge Kenyon for the court said that it is uniformly held under federal statutes that United States commissioners have such powers as to procedure that may be conferred by the state statutes on examining magistrates of the state. See section 1014, R. S.; Comp. Stat. § 674.
The Supreme Court, in U. S. v. Ewing, 140 U. S. 142, 11 S. Ct. 743, 35 L. Ed. 388, said:
“It is proper,” under section 1014, supra, “to look at the law of the state in which the services in such ease are rendered, to determine what is necessary and proper to be done.” -
Justice Brewer, in U. S. v. Patterson, 150 U. S. 67, 14 S. Ct. 21, 37 L. Ed. 999, said:
“It was held in the case of U. S. v. Ewing, 140 U. S. 142, that, in view of section 1014 of the Revised Statutes, the law of the state in which the services are rendered must be looked at, in order to determine what is necessary in the matter of procedure.”
Section 1957, Rem. Comp. Stat. of Washington, says:
“The recognizance shall be conditioned in effect that the defendant will appear * * * to answer said charge whenever the same shall be prosecuted, and at all times until “discharged according to law, render himself amenable to ,the orders and process of the Superior Court, and if convicted, render himself in execution of the judgment.”
The recognizance in this case is a contract between the government and the surety to produce the defendant, not at any term of the court, “but at all rimes until discharged according to law.” The bond in effect so recites, and the statute enters into and becomes a part of the contract. The statute of Washington differs from the Nebraska statute under which the Mace, supra, recognizance was taken, in this: That the Nebraska statute provides, “That the accused appear forthwith before the District Court, if then in session, and if not in session, then on the first day of the. next jury term thereof” (Comp. St. Neb. 1922, § 9981), and the court said at page 639:
“It will be noted in this bond that the time is not fixed as of the next term. But the language is used, ‘on the first day of the 'term, to be begun and held on the 29th day of July, 1918/ ”
The court further said on the same page:
“The bond here under consideration called for the appearance of Chenoweth at the April term, 1918, of the United States- District Court, being the term in session at the time the bond was taken. * * * Forfeiture was entered at the September term. At that time the bond had no vitality.”
The Nebraska' statute required the accused to appear at a stated term, while the-Washington statute required the accused to *827appear “at all times until discharged according to law.”
The surety failed to produce the defendant, and must be held to the contract obligation.
The petition is denied.