Scearce v. Commonwealth’s Empirical Analysis

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1 state decisions

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1. ““It was not essential to the validity of the order of recognizance that this custody be shown, nor that he was released by reason of the recognizance, if these facts otherwise appear. The order of recognizance should have been fuller, containing a recital of the facts, (1) that defendant was in custody charged with the crime of robbery, and (2) that upon the taking of the recognizance in which appellants ' were surety Ammons was discharged from further custody in pursuance to the terms of the recognizance. Other parts of the record, however, conclusively established these facts. Recognizing the frailty of human beings and their likelihood to err even in the taking of a bond or. recognizance, the General Assembly of Kentucky, by section 85 of the Criminal Code, passed a curative statute, making every bond or recognizance in a criminal case effective if it substantially show that the defendant obtained his liberty through and by reason of the bond or recognizance.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Garner v. Commonwealth

2. ““No bail bond or bail recognizance shall be deemed to be invalid by reason of any variance between its stipulations and the provisions of this Code, nor by the failure of the magistrate or officer to transmit or deliver the same at the times herein provided, nor by any other irregularity, provided it be made to appear that the defendant was legally in custody charged with a public offense, and that he was released by reason of the giving of the bond or recognizance, and provided it can be ascertained from the bond or recognizance that the bail undertook that the defendant should appear before a magistrate for the examination of the charge, or 'before a court for the trial thereof.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Garner v. Commonwealth