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DECISION OF
THE UNITED STATES SUPREME COURT
(TAYLOR VS.
TAINTOR, 16 WALL, 366)
Such
is now the settled rule: When bail is given, the principal is regarded
as delivered to the custody of his sureties (bail bondsman). Their
dominion is a continuance of the original imprisonment. Whenever
they choose to do so, they may seize him and deliver him up in their
discharge; and if that cannot be done at once, they may imprison
him until it can be done. They may exercise their rights in person
or by AGENT. They may pursue him into another state; may arrest
him on the Sabbath; and, if necessary, may break and enter his house for
that purpose. The seizure is not made by virtue of new process.
None is needed. It is likened to the rearrest by the
sheriff of an escaping prisoner.
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