People v. Black

— This is an appeal by the State of California from a nunc pro tune order vacating a prior order of forfeiture of a bail bond following the defendant’s failure to appear for sentencing after his plea of guilty to a felony in the Superior Court in and for the County of Los Angeles.

The defendant, being charged with a felony, posted a bail bond in the amount of $1,500 written by the respondent National Automobile and Casualty Insurance Company. The bond assured that the defendant “will appear in the above-named court on the dates set forth to answer the complaint filed against him-her and all duly authorized amendments thereof, in whatever court it may be prosecuted, and will at all times hold him/her self amenable to the orders and process of the court, and, if convicted, will appear for pronouncement of judgment; or, if he/she fails to perform either of these conditions, that the National Automobile and Casualty Insurance Co., a California corporation, will pay to the people of the State of California, the sum of Fifteen Hundred Dollars ($1,500.00).

“If the forfeiture of this bond be ordered by the Court, judgment may be summarily made and entered' forthwith against the said…