{ "id": 8721974, "name": "Sternberg v. The State", "name_abbreviation": "Sternberg v. State", "decision_date": "1883-11", "docket_number": "", "first_page": "127", "last_page": "131", "citations": [ { "type": "official", "cite": "42 Ark. 127" } ], "court": { "name_abbreviation": "Ark.", "id": 8808, "name": "Arkansas Supreme Court" }, "jurisdiction": { "id": 34, "name_long": "Arkansas", "name": "Ark." }, "cites_to": [ { "cite": "31 Ark., 379", "category": "reporters:state", "reporter": "Ark.", "case_ids": [ 1879224 ], "pin_cites": [ { "page": "657" } ], "opinion_index": -1, "case_paths": [ "/ark/31/0379-01" ] } ], "analysis": { "cardinality": 350, "char_count": 6377, "ocr_confidence": 0.452, "pagerank": { "raw": 2.2094157524695485e-07, "percentile": 0.7763228666999504 }, "sha256": "b43b55d24d26e05e0c4b4cf81e830262fa3125828b36578f0b9f210a622f0edd", "simhash": "1:0bdda26d57cbb0bd", "word_count": 1116 }, "last_updated": "2023-07-14T15:26:49.915053+00:00", "provenance": { "date_added": "2019-08-29", "source": "Harvard", "batch": "2018" }, "casebody": { "judges": [], "parties": [ "Sternberg v. The State." ], "opinions": [ { "text": "ENGLISH, O. J.\nWilliam Lane being in custody under -an- indictment for a misdemeanor, M. Sternberg executed \u2022a bail bond for his appearance in the Circuit Court of Franklin County to answer the charge.\nAt the June term, 1882, a forfeiture was taken on the bond, and to a scire facias upon the forfeiture, Sternberg pleaded in substance as follows:\n\u201c That on or about the last day of January, 1882, he, Sternberg, applied to J. 0. Alston, clerk of the said Circuit Court, for a copy of said bail bond upon which he was surety for the appearance of William Lane at said court from term to term, etc., to answer a charge made against him in an indictment_ for selling liquor, etc., and that accordingly said clerk caused bis deputy, Bettis Alston, to make a duly certified copy of said bail bond, which was on said day delivered to this defendant; and by him placed in the hands of R. C. Shores, sheriff of said county, with positive directions to re-arrest said William Lane, which the said sheriff at once proceeded to do, and did do, the \u25a0said William Lane theu being in Ozark in said county. That immediately after said sheriff had arrested the said William Lane, as above stated, he, the said sheriff', stated \u2022to the said William Lane that M. Sternberg having surrendered him, he, the said William Lane, could file another bond at his leisure; and thereupon said William Lane was released by the said sheriff in the manner as last above stated.\n\u201c[That, as defendant is advised, the said Lane afterwards escaped from the custody of said sheriff, but has since been re-arrested, and is now released from custody upon a new bond duly executed and now on file in said court. That his failure to take a receipt from said sheriff\u2019 Shores, was clue alone to his ignorance of such requirement].\n\u201c All of which he is ready to prove. Wherefore he prays the court to set aside said forfeiture, and order said bail bond canceled and held for naught.\u201d\nThe above paragraph in brackets, was interlined by permission of the court after the plea was filed.\nThe court sustained a demurrer to the plea interposed by the State, and, defendant resting, final judgment was rendered against him for $250, the penalty of the bail bond, and he appealed.\nSection 1732 Gantt\u2019s Digest provides that \u201cat any time before the forfeiture of their bond, the bail may surrender the defendant, or the defendant may surrender himself to the jailer of the county in which the offense was committed ; but the surrender must be accompanied by a certified copy of the bail bond, to be delivered to the jailer, who must detain the defendant in custody thereon as upon a commitment, and give a written acknowledgment of the surrender, and the bail shall thereupon be exonerated.\u201d\nThis section is the same as section 81 of the Kentucky Criminal Code (Myer\u2019s Kentucky Code, p. 587) under which the Court of Appeals held that the surrender must be made to the jailer and not to the sheriff) but it seems the sheriff* there was not the jailer. See Schnieder v. Commonwealth, 3 Metcalf, 410; Bruce v. Cobzan, 2 Littell, 288.\nBut here the sheriff is ex officio jailer, though he may appoint a jailer, for whose conduct .he is responsible. ('Gantt\u2019s Digest, chapter 77.} And no doubt the bail may make a valid surrender of his principal to the sheriff. But the plea alleges no surrender to the sheriff in feompliance with the section of the statute above copied. It alleges that the bail placed in the hands of the sheriff a certified copy of the bail bond with directions to re-arrest the principal. But this was not a surrender of the principal to the sheriff' by his bail.\nThere are two further sections of the statute, however,, as follows:\n\u201c Section 1733. For the purpose of surrendering the defendant, the bail may obtain from the officer having in his custody the bail bond or recognizance, a certified copy thereof, and thereupon at any place in the State arrest the defendant, or, by his written indorsement thereon, authorize any person over the age of twenty-one years to do so.\n\u201c Section 1734. The bail may arrest the defendant without such certified copy.\u20197\n\"When appellant placed in the hands- of the sheriff' a certified copy of the bail bond, with directions to re-arrest Lane, as alleged in the plea, the- sheriff' was not obliged to make the arrest, and might have declined to do so, and required appellant to surrender him.into his custody; but the plea alleges that the sheriff did at once proceed to arrest Lane, and stated to him that appellant had surrendered him, and that he could file another bond at his leisure, and thereupon released him, etc.\nIf in fact the sheriff arrested Lane, and took him into his-custody, at the request of appellant, as alleged, this was in legal effect a surrender of him, and appellant was exonerated, and if the sheriff' released him, or permitted him to escape after such arrest, he-, and not appellant, was responsible. When the sheriff took him into custody, he was no longer in the keeping of appellant as his bail.\nThe plea is not artfully drawn, but it presents a substantial defense to the scire facias.\nThe judgment must be reversed, and the cause remanded with instructions to the court below to overrule the demurrer to the plea, and it will stand for trial on the truth of its allegations.\nNo consequence is attached to the allegations of the plea that after Lane escaped he was re-arrested,' and gave another bail bond. There may be successive bail bonds, and a liability upon each.", "type": "majority", "author": "ENGLISH, O. J." } ], "attorneys": [ "M. Sternberg, pro se.", "I. L. Fielder for appellant." ], "corrections": "", "head_matter": "Sternberg v. The State.\n1. JBail: Release: Surrender of his principal to sheriff.\nBail may surrender bis principal by procuring a certified copy of the bail bond and delivering it to the sheriff and having- him to arrest the principal. The actual arrest by the sheriff' is equivalent to a delivery of the defendant to him by the bail, and releases the bail from liability on the bond.\nAPPEAL from Franklin Circuit Court.\nHon. G. S. Cunningham, Circuit Judge.\nM. Sternberg, pro se.\nWhere a defense is vaguely or badly stated, the remedy of plaintiff is by motion to make more certain, and not by demurrer. {31 Ark., 379, 657; 3