State v. Leo

Action of scire facias against a surety to recover the penalty of a forfeited recognizance. The case comes forward on exceptions.

The bill discloses that one John Ambrosia, convicted of a violation of the Maine Liquor Law before the Municipal Court of Millinocket, took his appeal to the next term of the Superior Court to be holden in Penobscot County. The defendant was a surety on the respondent’s recognizance.

At the term to which the appeal was taken, the principal failed to appear and both he and his sureties were called and duly defaulted. On March 15, 1928, this writ of scire facias was…