COMMIT

In practice.· To· send a person to prison by virtue of a lawful authority, tor any crime or contempt, qr to an asylum. workhouse, reformatory, or the like, by authority of a court or magistrate. People v. Beach, 122 Cal. 37, 54 Pac. 369; Cummington v. Wareham, 9 Cush. (Ma .) 58\'.i; French v. Bancroft., 1 Mete. (Ma .) 502; People v. Warden, 73 App. Div. 174, 76 N. Y. Bupp. 728. To deliver a defendant to the custody of. the sheriff or marshal, oq his surrender by his ball. 1 Tid<l, Pr. ~. 287. [s. 230]