Coleman v. State
Court of Appeals of Maryland
Appeal from the Circuit Court for Allegany county. This was a scire facias, issued by the State against the appellants upon a forfeited recognizance, to which they appeared and bled a general demurrer. The court, (Perry, 3.,) overruled the demurrer and gave judgment for the State, from which the defendants appealed. The facts of the case are fully stated in the opinion of this court.
1Opinion of the Court
Mason, .1.,
delivered the opinion of this court.
It appears from the record in this case that Jesse Coleman, pne of the appellants, was in the jail of Allegany county on the 26th of February 1853, under the charge of “having stolen goods in his possession, ’ ’ find a recognizance was then entered into by the appellants before a justice of the peace, conditioned for the appearance of said Jesse “at the county court of said pounty, to be held on the —— day of April next ensuing, then and there to answer such charges as may be alleged against him for and concerning the stolen ¿oods found in his…
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