Rudolph Williams, and United Bonding Insurance Company, Surety-Appellant v. United States

BRATTON, District Judge.

This is an appeal from an order of the court below denying appellant’s motion to set aside the judgment and forfeiture previously entered against it as surety on a bond for Rudolph Williams.

Williams was convicted of bank robbery in August of 1968. He was sentenced to a prison term of ten years and remanded to the custody of the Attorney General. He subsequently filed a notice of appeal and, when appellant posted its bond in the sum of $15,000.00 on November 1, 1968, was released from the federal penitentiary at Leavenworth, Kansas, pending the outcome of his appeal.

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