People v. Wood

This matter involves the appeal of the impleaded defendant Rocky Wood of a judgment entered against him in the amount of $30,000 on an alleged suretyship obligation on the purported bail bond of his son, the defendant John Wood.

The defendant John Wood was charged by information with rape, deviate sexual assault, and home invasion. Bond was originally set at $200,000. The defendant John Wood filed a motion for a surety bond or in the alternative for a reduction in bond to $15,000. On June 19, 1980, the trial court entered its order releasing the defendant on personal recognizance-surety and as…