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		Section/Rule:	No. 29
Subject:	Forms - Rules of Criminal Procedure - Criminal Procedures Forms	Publication / Adopted Date:
Topic:	Bond in Felony Case Given After Defendant Has Been Afforded or Waived Preliminary Examination	Revised / Effective Date:

FORM NO. 29

BOND IN FELONY CASE GIVEN AFTER DEFENDANT HAS BEEN AFFORDED OR WAIVED PRELIMINARY EXAMINATION

(For use where cash or securities are deposited)

STATE OF MISSOURI )
) ss.
COUNTY OF ___________ )

IN THE __________________________ COURT WITHIN AND FOR THE SAID COUNTY

STATE OF MISSOURI, Plaintiff, )
vs. )
____________________, Defendant. )

KNOW ALL MEN BY THESE PRESENTS, That I, _____________, the defendant herein, as principal, do acknowledge myself to owe and to be held and firmly bound unto the State of Missouri in the full penal sum of $___________, for the payment of which I bind myself, my heirs, administrators, executors and assigns to be levied of my goods and chattels, lands and tenements, and unto the said State rendered, and upon the conditions hereinafter stated and in further security of the performance of this bond I have deposited in the registry of this court:

(a) cash in the amount of $__________
(b) the following securities: ____________________________________________________________
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The condition of this bond is that whereas I, the above bounden defendant, have been accorded a preliminary examination and bound over to await the action of the _____________ Court (have waived preliminary examination and have been bound over to await the action of the __________________ Court) on a charge of a felony, to-wit:
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NOW, THEREFORE, if I, the said defendant, shall personally be and appear in the______________Court on the _____ day of _____________, 19___, and from time to time thereafter as I may be required to appear by order of the said court, to answer the charge against me for the said offense, not thence to depart without leave for trial and all other proceedings herein, including the rendition of final judgment and sentence, and if I shall abide and submit myself to the orders, judgment and sentence and process of the court and if said cause be removed from said court by change of venue shall personally be and appear before the court to which said cause shall be removed at a time to be specified in the order of the court from which it is removed and thereafter from time to time as I may be required by order of the court to which said cause is removed, not thence to depart without leave, for trial and all other proceedings herein, including the rendition of final judgment and sentence and shall abide and submit myself to the orders, judgment, sentence and process of said court, then this bond will be null, void and of no effect and said cash or securities shall be returned to me; otherwise this bond to be in full force and effect in accordance with law, and the said court, after the State has obtained a final judgment on this bond in the manner prescribed by law or by the rules of the Supreme Court, may order said cash to be appropriated to the State of Missouri or said securities sold and the proceeds thereof appropriated to the State of Missouri in the manner and to the uses provided by law.

IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have set my hand this _____ day of _____________, 19___,

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Approved this ______ day of _________________, 19___,

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Clerk/Judge of the _____________ Court

This bond recorded in Book ____at Page ___.