Application for bail
Applied in 3 court decisions — leading case Wickham v. State (2009)
Most recently applied in Wickham v. State (June 2009)
Acts 1989, No. 417, § 5; 2005, No. 1994, § 272.
Court decisions citing this, by year. The dip in the last several years is a data-coverage gap, not a real trend — our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so recent citations are undercounted.
(1) If the defendant is committed to jail and the application for bail is made to a judge or magistrate during vacation, it must be by written petition signed by the defendant or his or her counsel briefly stating the offense for which he or she is committed and naming the persons offered as surety.
(2) In all other cases, the application may be made orally to the judge or magistrate.
Current official text: Arkansas General Assembly. Digitized from the UniCourt Code Improvement Commission public-domain capture. Reproduced from public-domain Arkansas statutes; confirm against the official source for the current text. Not legal advice.