Commonwealth ex rel. Carswell v. Gower

*279Opinion of the Court, by

Judge Owsley.

Gower, who was appointed jailer by the county court of Franklin, on the 21st of April 1818, together,with Alexander H. Rennick and John Woods his sureties, executed to the Commonwealth of Kentucky, a bond hi the penalty of one thousand dollars, conditioned to be ■void, “ if the'isaid Gower shall faithfully ^.xecjite, the office of Jailer in said county agreeable to íaw.”<s

Upon thi^ bond an action of debt was brought against Gower and his sureties, in the name of the Commonwealth, for the use and benefit of Carswell, and after setting out the bond and…