Supreme Court of South Carolina November 15, 1812 (Arthur Clark & Co. v. Henry Moore)

Nott? J.

By the act, under which the bond in question is taken? no person is entitled to the benefit of the prison rules? until he? she? or they? shall have given satisfactory security to the sheriff? &c. and it also provides that the sheriff shall be answerable for the solvency of such security. Now, since the act makes the sheriff the sole judge of the security?