Legal Opinion

Loflin v. Fowler

New York Supreme Court

Decided October 15, 1820PublishedCited by 3 opinions

CJUNES, moved, that an exoneretur be entered on the ’ bail piece filed in this cause. It appeared, that the defend-r 1 x . ant had been indicted and convicted for passing counterfeit money, before the Supreme Court of Vermont, in July last, and was sentenced to the state prison of that state for thirteen years.

1Per curiam

The defendant has been taken out of the, power of his bail, by the judgment of law ; he is, in this respect, as if he were dead. The motion for an exoneretur ought, therefore, to be granted.

Rule granted.(a)

Vide Cathcart v. Cannon, 1 Johns. Cases, 28.

2Cited by3 opinions

  1. Steelman v. MattixSupreme Court of New Jersey · 1876
  2. Goodwin v. SmithSuperior Court of New Hampshire · 1827
  3. Way v. WrightMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1843