Dukes v. Dukes

Bell, Presiding Judge.

An Act of 1827 “regulating the proceedings on bonds taken for the security of the peace” (Cobb’s Digest, pp. 859, 860) made it the duty of any judicial officer who took a peace bond to return the bond together with the affidavit and other evidence to the next term of the superior, inferior or city court, whichever sat first. And it was the duty of the officer prosecuting for the State in that court, on the first day of the term or as soon afterwards as possible, to move the judge to take the case into consideration. Another Act, passed in 1850 (Cobb’s Digest, p. 865),…