Combs v. Commonwealth
Court of Appeals of Kentucky
CASE 56 — FORFEITED BAIL BOND APPEAL PROM WOODFORD CIRCUIT COURT. 1 The sureties in a bail bond are released whenever the defendant is actually in the custody of the court in which the indictment is pending. Willis v. Caldwell, 85 Ky. 68; Criminal Code, sec. 183; Commonwealth v. Thomson, 9 Ky.
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CASE 56 — FORFEITED BAIL BOND APPEAL PROM WOODFORD CIRCUIT COURT. 1 The sureties in a bail bond are released whenever the defendant is actually in the custody of the court in which the indictment is pending. Willis v. Caldwell, 85 Ky. 68; Criminal Code, sec. 183; Commonwealth v. Thomson, 9 Ky. Law Rep., 439. 2. The public announcement that no trial would be held at that term and that the old docket was continued was a notification to the defendant and to his surety that he did not have to be in court. Don Allen v. Lenox, 6 Dana, 89. 3. A defendant on bail is not compelled to be -actually…
1Opinion of the Court
JUDGE HAZELRIGG
delivered the- opinion op the court.
One Stone stood indicted under three separate indictments for embezzlement, and gave three separate bonds, with appellants as his sureties, for his appearance to the October term, 1896, of the Woodford Circuit Court. At that term he appeared and was tried and acquitted on one of. the indictments, and another one was dismissed. At the succeeding term the court was engaged in the trial of other eases until so near its close that it was manifest no other jury cases could be tried, and it therefore announced that all other cases would be…
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