State v. Gordon
Texas Supreme Court
Appeal from Titus. Tried below before the Hon. James H. Rogers. Thomas Gordon was indicted November 12, 1873, for theft of sixty dollars money, the property of S. P. Adams.
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Appeal from Titus. Tried below before the Hon. James H. Rogers. Thomas Gordon was indicted November 12, 1873, for theft of sixty dollars money, the property of S. P. Adams. Filed in the case was a bond bearing date September 15, 1873, and approved by W. R. Edwards, sheriff of Titus county, in the sum of fifty dollars, by Gordon and eight sureties, “to be void if the said Thomas Gordon shall make his personal appearance- before the honorable District Court for the county of Titus, * * to answer the State of Texas on a charge against him by affidavit of David Scurlock, of said county of Titus,…
1Opinion of the Court
Roberts, Chief Justice.
In this case, upon motion of the defendants, the court set aside the forfeiture nisi and quashed the bail bond upon which it was founded, which the State, upon appeal, assigns as error.
The bail bond required Thomas Gordon “to answer the State of Texas on a charge against him by affidavit of Daniel Scurlock,” setting forth the facts of a theft of money. The bond neither gave the name of the offense with which he was charged as “theft,” nor did it in any *512way show why such an affidavit made by Scurlock authorized the sheriff or any one else to take a bail bond from Gordon,…
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