GIBSON v. STATE

No. 57201.

655 P.2d 1028 (1982)

Joe GIBSON and Allied Fidelity Insurance Company, Appellants, v. The STATE of Oklahoma, Appellees.

Supreme Court of Oklahoma.

December 14, 1982.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Jack N. Shears, Shears & Shears, Ponca City, for appellants.

Keith Ward, First Asst. Dist. Atty., Stillwater, for appellee.


OPALA, Justice:

The issue presented for our decision is whether the bail bond in suit was exonerated and the surety thereon discharged by operation of law when the trial court pronounced judgment-and-sentence. We answer in the negative.

The appellants were sureties on an appearance bond. After judgment-and-sentence was pronounced, the trial court set the defendant free for a few hours to allow him to take care of...

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