Austin Troy Simon v. Albert Woodson, Sheriff of Lamar County, Texas

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• “[T]he ability to make bond is an important element in fixing an appropriate amount therefor, but it cannot be said that the Constitution requires that it alone be controlling.”
• defendant charged with felony assault on an officer carrying life sentence
• “Although [the petitioner] is no longer being detained, his freedom does not render the cause moot. The fact that he retains an undeniable monetary interest in the amount by which the bond is alleged to be unconstitutionally excessive keeps it from being so.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).