Ford v. State

This is an application by Patrick Ford, Jr., to be admitted to bail pending proceedings in error to review a judgment of the district court for Douglas county, whereby the petitioner was convicted of the crime of larceny as bailee. The practice has long prevailed in this court to-admit to bail in like cases upon a showing of probable error. The application is, however, in this instance, resisted by the state, not because of the absence of sufficient showing of error in the record, but on the broad ground that no authority has been conferred upon the courts of this-state to admit to bail…