Vanwey v. State

Reeves, Associate Justice.

The State, by her assistant attorney general, moves the court to dismiss the appeal in this case for the want of a sufficient recognizance.

The indictment charges that appellant Vanwey and his associated justices, composing the County Court of Red River county, willfully neglected to publish in the Clarksville Times or in the Clarksville Standard a quarterly statement of the expenditures, assets, and indebtedness of the county commencing on the 31st day of December, 1873, and continuing three months, &c., as required by law.

The first section of the act of March 8,…