Marshall v. State

OPINION

DAY, Justice.

This is an appeal from twelve separate bond forfeiture proceedings. The trial court remitted the entire bond amount in each case but deducted statutory costs against the surety from each remitted bond amount.

In this case of first impression, the issue before us is whether the State is authorized to withhold interest from a surety on an appearance bond and calculate this amount from the judgment nisi date until the entry of a final judgment remitting the bond under TEX.CODE CRIM.PROC.ANN. art. 22.16 (Vernon 1989). We hold that, under the particular facts before us,…