State v. Bertrand
Supreme Court of Louisiana
Appeal from Criminal District Court, Parish of Orleans; Frank D. Chrétien, Judge. Eugene Bertrand and Odette Duval having been arrested for concubinage, they were released upon bonds signed by Joseph Bonomo as surety. The bonds having been thereafter forfeited for failure of the principals to appear, Bonomo moved to set aside such judgment of forfeiture, which motion was denied, and he appeals.
1Opinion of the CourtBreaux, C. J.
The appellant was surety on defendants’ bonds. He seeks to have the judgment rendered against him as surety reversed.
The amount of each of the two bonds is $250.. The defendants, Eugene Bertrand and Odette Duval, were charged in an affidavit, in the First city criminal court, with felon-iously living in open concubinage, in violation of Act No. 87, p. 105 of 1908, one being a colored man, the other a white woman.
A subpoena was issued on motion of the district attorney, and served on defendants and their surety.
At the time fixed by the court, the defendants failed to appear. Thereafter, in the…
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