Rudy v. State

PRENDERGAST, Presiding Judge.

This is an appeal by appellant Budy and his two sureties from a judgment against all of them on his forfeited bail bond.

The statute (art. 497, C. C. P.) expressly provides that after the judgment nisi is rendered, the cause shall be docketed upon the civil docket in the name of the State as plaintiff, and the principal and sureties as defendants; “and the proceedings had therein shall be governed by the same rules governing other civil actions.”

The record shows that no briefs were filed in the court below at all and none in this until just the day before the case…