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67 Miss. 363

Tedford v. State

Mississippi Supreme Court

Decided October 15, 1889

Mississippi Supreme Court · decided 1889-10-15

From the circuit court of Lincoln county. Hon. J. B. Chrism an, Judge. To a scire facias on a forfeited bail bond, appellants, the sureties, pleaded that after its execution and before its forfeiture the grand jury returned in the circuit court of the same county other indictments against their principal, under which he had been arrested and taken into custody. It was not averred that the accused was still in custody.

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Decided 1889-10-15

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Cooper, J.,

¶1delivered the opinion of the court.

¶2The appellants were not released from the obligation as sureties on the bail bond of their principal by reason of his subsequent arrest on another charge.

¶3The jdea does not aver that the principal was in custody under such subsequent arrest at the time at which the appellants had become sureties for his appearance. The facts pleaded may be time, and yet it may be that the principal had been released in time to appear for trial of the offense to answer which appellants were his sureties. The contention that the subsequent arrest for another offense operated ipso facto to release the prior bond .to appear is wholly fanciful, and springs from the assumption that the state by accepting the bond on which the sureties were bound delivered the accused to the manual possession of the sureties, and impliedly agreed not to disturb that possession for any cause except on condition of releasing them from their obligation as sureties.

¶4Judgment affirmed.

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