Steve House wrote:

At that time the poicy was to issue a ticket to a driver with an
in-state license and no outstanding warrants but out-of-state drivers would,
at the officer's discretion, be taken into custody, cuffed for transport and
booked into jail, and would have to post bail equal to the maximum possible
fine to secure release. Failure to appear then would be considered a plea
of "no contest," a guilty verdict entered in the record, and bail would be
forfeited.

Tennessee, Georgia, and South Carolina handled this in a similar fashion
except that in at least South Carolina (and maybe the others) the arresting
officer was empowered to take the bail payment so the driver didn't have to
be transported to the jail.

George Patterson
The optimist feels that we live in the best of all possible worlds. The
pessimist is afraid that he's correct.
James Branch Cavel