State v. Buchanan

SUMMERS, Justice.

The trial court forfeited an appearance bond in a criminal case for the defendant’s failure to appear. The bail bondsman urged he was not liable on the bond because the defendant had been released by the sheriff without having first been delivered to the bondsman at the Tulsa County Jail. The trial court rejected that defense, but the Court of Appeals reversed on that point. Certiorari having previously been granted, we reinstate the judgment of the trial court forfeiting the bond.

Bond in the criminal case against Darrell Buchanan was set at $65,000.00. Dewey Ward, a licensed…