Peacock v. State

Reeves, Associate Justice.

Appellants assign for error the ruling of the District Court in rendering a final judgment against them as sureties for M. M. Miller on a forfeited bail bond.

It appears that Miller, who was indicted for an assault, executed the bond in question, with Turner and Peacock as his sureties. The bond bears date September 27, 1871, and required Miller to appear before the District Court of Titus county on the second Monday in October, 1871, to answer the charge against him. Miller having failed to appear at the March term, 1873, of the District Court, a judgment nisi was…