Hanes v. United States

In the District Court for the Western Division of the Northern District of Ohio Hanes was convicted of conspiracy, and sentenced to two years in the penitentiary and to pay a $10,000 fine. The District Judge allowed a writ of error and fixed the penalty of a supersedeas bond, to be conditioned to appear and surrender, and to pay the find if the judgment were affirmed, at $12,500. Hanes professed inability to give this bond, wheréupon the court ordered that he might give a bond for costs only, and not as a supersedeas; the -penalty of such bond to be $500. This Hanes gave. The citation was…