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9 Ky. Op. 160

Coleman v. Commonwealth

Court of Appeals of Kentucky

Decided September 29, 1876

Court of Appeals of Kentucky · decided 1876-09-29

<p>Bail Bond — Surrender of Prisoner.</p> <p>One who has signed a bail bond is not discharged from liability thereon by surrendering the prisoner to the sheriff, when such surrender is not accompanied with a certified copy of the bail bond as required by the statute.</p>

Cited by 1 later decisions — most recently October 1925

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Decided 1876-09-29

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¶1Opinion by

Judge Lindsay:

¶2The appellant signed the bail bond. It therefore appears upon the face of that instrument that he undertook that the defendant should appear in the Pendleton Circuit Court to answer any indictment that might be found against him.

¶3The answer states that the appellant surrendered the accused to the jailer of Pendleton county, and that the latter received him into *161custody, but as the bail cannot lawfully make such a surrender, and as the jailer cannot legally accept the custody of the prisoner until the conditions of Sec. 81 of the Criminal Code of practice have been complied with, the answer was defective in failing to show that the surrender was accompanied with a certified copy of the bail bond. The demurrer was therefore properly sustained.

A. R. Clark, for appellant.Moss, for appellee.

¶4Judgment affirmed.

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