E. & E. Bonding Co. v. People

Opinion by

Mr. Justice Pringle.

Plaintiffs in error, E. & E. Bonding Company and the Wabash Fire and Casualty Insurance Company, were the defendants below and will be referred to hereinafter as the sureties. Defendant in error, the People of the State of Colorado, will be referred to as the People.

*187One Schoengarth was charged with the crimes of forgery, forgery by fictitious check and confidence game. The amount of bail was set at $4,500, and the sureties posted a bail bond in this amount with Schoengarth as principal.

The criminal charges against Schoengarth were tried to a jury in Division B of…