Leach v. Dinsmore

Plaintiff’s assignor, who was the defendant in a criminal proceeding pending in the Municipal Court of the City of Los Angeles, deposited the sum of $2,000 as cash bail with the defendant W. S. Dinsmore as Clerk of the said Municipal Court. On April 29, 1935, such assignor having failed to appear as required, the court ordered entries in its minutes appropriate to declaration of bail forfeiture pursuant to the provisions of section 1305 Penal Code which in material part reads as follows:

“If, without sufficient excuse, the defendant neglects to appear . . . when his presence in court is…