State v. Brown

Spofford, J,

The defendants, appellants from a judgment of forfeiture upon an appearance bond in a criminal case, have assigned two errors in the proceedings below.

I. They contend that the surety was entitled to a personal notice, citation, or service of a rule, before the bond could be forfeited as to him. The proceedings are statutory, and the remedy is most summary. The law declares that “ it shall be the duty of the Attorney General and the several District Attorneys, in their respective districts, on the second or any other day thereafter, of each regular jury term of the District Court,…