Legal Opinion

McClure v. Smith

Supreme Court of Georgia

Decided January 15, 1876PublishedCited by 4 opinions

Practice in the Superior Court. Bill of exceptions. Criminal law. Bond. Bail. Sheriff. Before Judge Knight. Union Superior Court. May Term, 1875. Reported in the opinion.

1Opinion of the Court

Bleckley, Judge.

1. The complaint is that a plea was stricken. The contents of the plea are misrecited in the bill of exceptions, and it was upon the misrecitals that counsel for plaintiffs in error seemed to rely, chiefly, in his argument before this court. The sole authority to which he referred was 6 Georgia Reports, 202, which relates to incomplete bonds, or bonds not finally and unconditionally delivered. That authority might be pertinent if the plea in the present case was what the bill of exceptions represents it to be; but it is not. The plea, as set out at full length in the…

2Cited by4 opinions

  1. Johnson v. SherrerSupreme Court of Georgia · 1944
  2. State v. Sureties of KrohneWyoming Supreme Court · 1893
  3. Heath v. MillerSupreme Court of Georgia · 1944
  4. Ware v. City BankSupreme Court of Georgia · 1877

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