Britton v. Richards
New York City Court
Motion to reduce bail. This action was. brought by Winchester Britton ((who was district-attorney of Kings county,) against Henry A. Richards, for libel. The details of the material facts appear in the opinion.
1Opinion of the CourtNeilson, J.
This is an application to reduce the bail, fixed by the order of arrest at ten thousand dollars, to the sum of five hundred dollars. Bail was given in the required amount on the day of the defendant’s arrest.
The plaintiff, the district-attorney of this county, brings the action, Charging the defendant with having published a libel concerning him, in the Brooklyn Chronicle.
*259As the bail exacted,—an amount proper only in an extreme case,—was fixed in view of the grievous character of the offense charged upon the defendant, some reference to the publication, on this review, seems unavoidable. In…
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