State v. Douglas
West Virginia Supreme Court
Error to Circuit Court, Upsbur County. Proceeding by the State of West Virginia against Annie M. and E. C. Douglas for writ of scire facias on a recognizance of bail, in which E. W. Brake was the principal. From an order in favor of the State, defendants bring error.
1Opinion of the Court
Miller, Judge :
To a writ of scire facias upon a recognizance of bail, the defendants as obligors appeared and tendered their joint plea to the effect that subsequent to their entering into the recognizance E. W. Brake, the principal therein, in June 1920, was arrested in Calackamas County, in the State of Oregon, upon a warrant charging him with murd'er in that county and was confined in the jail of that county and of *339Multnomah County, until September 20, 1920, when be was tried and convicted of murder in the second degreé and sentenced to confinement in the penitentiary of that state for the…
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