Crutchfield v. State
Supreme Court of Georgia
Scire facias to forfeit recognizance, from Crawford, Decision by Judge Powers, September Term, 1857. Thomas Crutchfield, the plaintiff in error, became surety for Jonathan J. Jones, in a recognizance, the condition of which was as follows: “The condition of the above obligation is such, that if the said Jonathan J. Jones shall be and appear at the next Superior Court to be held in and for the said county, on the first Monday in September next, then and there to answer…
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Scire facias to forfeit recognizance, from Crawford, Decision by Judge Powers, September Term, 1857. Thomas Crutchfield, the plaintiff in error, became surety for Jonathan J. Jones, in a recognizance, the condition of which was as follows: “The condition of the above obligation is such, that if the said Jonathan J. Jones shall be and appear at the next Superior Court to be held in and for the said county, on the first Monday in September next, then and there to answer touching a shooting and intent to kill, charged to have been committed by the said Jonathan J. Jones, upon one Joseph R.…
1Opinion of the CourtBenning, J.
By the Court. delivering the opinion.
The condition of the bond was, that Jones should appear “to answer touching a shooting and intent to kill, charged to have been committed by the said Jonathan J. Jones, upon one Joseph R. Ansley,” and should “not hence depart without leave of Court.”
The substance of the judgment rendered in the first self a., was, that this condition only bound Jones to appear, to answer to an indictment for an assault with intent to murder Ansley, and did not bind him to appear, to answer an indictment for the murder of Ansley, even, although, Ansley might haye died of…
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