Burgemeister v. Anderson

Being indicted for murder in the District Court of the 37th Judicial District of Texas, relator gave a bail bond with two sureties in the sum of $7500. On February 1, 1915, the bail bond was forfeited and judgment was entered that the State recover of relator and- her sureties, the sum of $7500, and that the judgment be made final unless good cause why relator did not appear be shown at the next term of the court.

Relator filed a motion in said court to set aside the judgment nisi on various grounds, one of which was that relator had voluntarily appeared and stood her trial under the…