Stallings v. State

PRENDERGAST, Presiding Judge.

This is a scire facias case-F. L. Stallings had an examining trial before a justice of the peace of Hemphill County on a complaint charging him with swindling,—a felony. Hpon the hearing the justice of the peace required him to give bond as required by law in the sum of $1000 to appear before the next term of the District Court of that county. Thereupon he, with Geo. Gerlach and C. L. Tennison as sureties, entered into the proper bail bond, which we here copy:

“State of Texas,

County of Hemphill.

Know all men by these presents: That we, F. L. Stallings as principal,…