State v. Angell
Texas Supreme Court
Appeal from the Criminal Court of Galveston county. Tried below before the Hon. S. Dodge. There is no occasion for a statement of the facts.
1Opinion of the CourtOgden, J.
We have frequently decided that upon an appeal from a judgment on a forfeited appearance bond, we would not go behind the bond to inquire into the sufficiency or insufficiency of the indictment or information, nor to inquire whether the indictment charged the same offense described in the bond. But when the bond upon its face is in every respect a full compliance with the statute, we have held extrinsic evidence, when offered by the sureties on the bond, to be inadmissible to prove its insufficiency to support a judgment of forfeiture.
The bond in this case is fatally defective, and the…
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