Ex parte Bell

Citations

• 56 Miss. 282

Syllabus

<p>1. Criminal Law. Appeal. Bond, to appear in Supreme Court.</p> <p>A recognizance taken after conviction, in open court, for the appearance of tbe convict in the Supreme Court, to answer the judgment of said court on appeal from a sentence of imprisonment in the penitentiary, is void, and the convict is unlawfully at liberty, as in case of escape. Code 1871, sect. 2842, prescribes the only valid bond which a convict can give for appearance in this court.</p> <p>2. Same. Term of imprisonment. When it begins, where convict at large.</p> <p>Where the sentence in a felony case is imprisonment for a certain term, and the time elapses without the imprisonment being endured, the convict can be at any time afterwards brought before the court, and a new date specified at which the term of imprisonment shall begin.</p>