Parrish v. State
Court of Appeals of Maryland
Appeal from the Circuit Court for Carroll County : This was a scire facias upon a forfeited recognizance issued on the 18th of June, 1855, at the instance of the State’s Attorney, out of the Circuit Court for Carroll county, against the appellant and Eli Y. Parrish.
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Appeal from the Circuit Court for Carroll County : This was a scire facias upon a forfeited recognizance issued on the 18th of June, 1855, at the instance of the State’s Attorney, out of the Circuit Court for Carroll county, against the appellant and Eli Y. Parrish. The writ is as follows : “ Carroll County, set: The State of Maryland to the sheriff of Carroll County, greeting:—Whereas, at a Circuit Court for Frederick county, begun and held at the court-house in and for the county of Frederick, on the second Monday of February, in the year 1855, before the honorable Madison Nelson, judge of…
1Opinion of the CourtTuck, J.
If, under any state of things, the judge sitting for Frederick county had authority to recognize the party to appear at Carroll Circuit court, we must assume the existence of facts warranting the exercise of the jurisdiction, upon the principle “that the judgments of inferior jurisdictions will not be reversed except for errors apparent, and will be sustained by every fair legal intendment in favor of their correctness.” State, use of Beall vs. Harrison, 9 Gill & Johns, 15. In that case, a sheriff’s bond was taken to be valid, though executed after the 1st of January, because the orphans…
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