Bird v. Terrell
Supreme Court of Georgia
• Forfeiture of bond. Before Judge Kimsey. Dawson superior •court. August 7, 1906.
1Opinion of the CourtAtkinson, J.
1. Where a bond was taken by a justice of the peace, binding the obligor to appear at the superior court to answer a charge to be there preferred against him, it was not essential to a lawful forfeiture of the bond that it should be made to appear that there had been a committing trial or an express waiver thereof by the obligor.
2. When a bond given for the appearance of a person to answer a criminal charge was duly - forfeited and scire facias ordered to issue returnable *387to the next term, and the seire facias was not issued until a date too late to be returnable to the next term, the court…
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