Allied Fidelity Insurance Co. ex rel. AAA Bail Bonds v. State

MILLER, Judge.

Allied Fidelity Insurance Company and International Fidelity Insurance Company, Inc., furnished bail bonds for two co-defendants in the amounts of $7500 and $5000. When neither defendant appeared at a preliminary proceeding, the bonds were immediately forfeited and judgment later entered on the forfeiture after the bondsmen failed to produce the defendants within the statutory period. Allied and International claim the court erred because, before the entry of the judgment but long after the 180 day statutory period for production of the defendants and much beyond the 90 day stay…