People v. Coultas

This was a prosecution commenced before a justice of the peace, by plaintiff in error, to recover from the defendant a penalty for continuing an obstruction to a public road.

On appeal to the circuit court, the defendant renewed a motion which he had made before the justice, and which had been overruled, to dismiss the suit because no bond for costs had been given before the suit was commenced, as required by law in all penal actions. The court overruled the motion, and the action of the court in so ruling is one of the cross-errors assigned by the defendant in error.

In this no error was…