Coroners' Inquests, Bail Act 1859
| Jurisdiction | UK Non-devolved |
| Citation | 1859 c. 33 |
(22 Vict.) C A P. XXXIII.
[19th April 1859]
'WHEREAS in many Cases Inconvenience and Expense have been occasioned by the Inability of Coroners inEngland to admit to Bail Persons charged by the Verdict of a Coroner's Jury with the Offence of Manslaughter:' Be it therefore enacted by the Queen's most Excellent Majesty, by and with the Advice and Consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the Authority of the same, as follows:
I In Cases of Manslaughter the Coroner may admit Persons charged to Bail.
I. In every Case in which a Coroner's Jury shall have found a Verdict of Manslaughter against any Person or Persons it shall be lawful for the Coroner or Deputy Coroner before whom the Inquest was taken to accept Bail, if he shall think fit, with good and sufficient Sureties, for the Appearance of the Person so charged with the Offence of Manslaughter at the next Assize and General Gaol Delivery to be holden in and for the County within which the Inquest was taken; and thereupon such Person if in Custody of any Bailiff or other Officer of the Coroner's Court, or in any Gaol under a Warrant of Commitment issued by such Coroner, shall be discharged therefrom.
II Recognizances to be taken.
II. In every Case in which any Coroner or Deputy Coroner shall admit any Person to Bail, he shall cause Recognizances to be taken in the Form given in the Schedule to this Act, and give a Notice thereof to every Person so bound, and shall return such Recognizances to the then next ensuing Assizes, and such Coroner or Deputy Coroner shall be entitled to such Fees and Charges as the Clerks of Justices of the by Law entitled to on admitting Persons charged to Bail.
III Persons against whom Verdicts of Manslaughter found to have Depositions.
III. At any Time after all the Depositions of Witnesses shall have been taken, every Person against whom any Coroner's Jury may have found a Verdict of Manslaughter shall be entitled to have from the Person having Custody thereof Copies of the Depositions on which such Verdict shall have been found, on Payment of a reasonable Sum for the same, not...
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