Allegheny Mutual Insurance v. State

The appellant, Allegheny Mutual Insurance Company, posted a bail bond in the amount of five thousand dollars ($5,000) on behalf of Robert Alan Garris. The bond was to be forfeited if Garris, who was charged with forgery and uttering (Md. Ann. Code art. 27, § 44), failed to appear for trial in the Circuit Court for Wicomico County when the case was called.

On May 2,1978, the date scheduled for the trial of Garris on the alleged offenses, he did not appear in court because he had removed himself to San Diego, California. The trial court forfeited the bail on August 2, 1978, 1 and it was paid in…