State v. LeQuire

OPINION

CORNELIUS, Judge.

H.A. (Bam) Webster, d/b/a Columbia Bonding Co., executed a $150,000.00 bond for Jerry Allen LeQuire pending LeQuire’s appeal to this Court of a criminal conviction. When LeQuire failed to appear as ordered, a conditional forfeiture was entered against Webster on April 27, 1982. Final forfeiture was entered by this Court on January 25, 1983.

Webster paid $150,000.00 plus court costs to the clerk of this Court on June 17, 1983. Approximately two months later, on August 19,1983, LeQuire was apprehended in Fort Lauderdale, Florida.1 Webster, claiming he has, at all times,…