Munday v. State

Under the principle underlying the ruling in Cooper v. Brown, 10 Ga. App. 730 (73 S. E. 1101), where a defendant has been convicted of a criminal offense and has filed a bill of exceptions and given bond for his appearance to abide the final judgment in the case, *112and pending tlie hearing of the writ of error he is convicted of another criminal offense and sentenced to the chain-gang, from which he escapes, the bond given in the first case becomes functus officio and the obligation of the sureties is annulled. It follows that the defendant is a fugitive from justice not only in the latter case…