United States v. Clatterbuck

CHESNUT, District Judge.

In the above case on the criminal docket, Harry and Rebecca Seidman have petitioned the court to relieve them from a bail forfeiture which was entered against them on September 21, 1936. The governing statute is United States Code, Title 18, § 601, 18 U.S.C.A. § 601, which reads as follows: “When any recognizance in a criminal cause, taken for, or in, or returnable to, any court of the United States, is forfeited by a breach of the condition thereof, such court may, in its discretion, remit the whole or a part of the penalty, whenever it appears to the court that there…