This section is from the book "Popular Law Library Vol10 Criminal Law, Criminal Procedure, Wills, Administration", by Albert H. Putney. Also available from Amazon: Popular Law-Dictionary.
Bail will be allowed or denied by the court in which a cause is pending on a writ of error, in the discretion of the court, or according to the statute if the matter is regulated by statute.
Any justice of the Supreme Court of the United States, in allowing a writ of error and granting a supersedeas, has authority to admit any prisoner to bail pending a writ of error.35
32 In re Alexander, 59 Mo., 598. 33 Hughes' Cr. Law, Sec. 2666;
State vs. Crocker, 5 Wyo., 385;
State vs. Summons, 19 Ohio, 139.
34 Lynch vs. People, 38 Ill., 497.
See Ex parte England, 23 Tex.
App., 90. 35 Hudson vs. Parker, 156 U. S., 277.
 
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