People v. American Surety Co.

Action on a bail bond. On the twenty-ninth day of April, 1919, a complaint was filed in the justice’s court of San Bernardino township, in the county of San Bernardino, charging one Schumacher with a felony, and a warrant of arrest was duly issued. On the first day of May, the defendant being in custody under said warrant, the justice made an order fixing his bail at the sum of two thousand dollars. Thereafter, on the third day of May, the defendant executed an undertaking of bail for Schumacher in the sum of two thousand dollars. The undertaking was in the form prescribed by section 1278 of…