Joseph v. Travis County

. BLAIR, J.

Travis county sued Edward Joseph as principal, and B. Sawyer and Prank Raggio as sureties, on a convict-hiring bond, executed under provision ,of. articles 6249-6256, R. S. 1911; and on a trial to the court without a jury recovered judgment for $30.40. ,

The bond hired one Richard A. DeBriscoe, who had been convicted of the offense of aggravated assault in the county court of Travis county, and his punishment assessed at 30 days in jail and costs of prosecution, to appellant, Edward Joseph, who was principal on the bond.

By their first four propositions Joseph and his sureties attack…