State v. Nelson

CROCKETT, Chief Justice.

Appellant bondsman, Dewey Sanone, seeks reversal of a judgment for $1,000 entered against him for a forfeiture of a bail bond in the District Court of the Seventh District, Price, Utah, when his principal, defendant Norbet Nelson, failed to appear to answer to a charge of attempted grand larceny on which he had been bound over for trial.

'The arraignment was set for November 10, 1966. The defendant failed to appear. The court accepted an excuse offered by his counsel based on information that the defendant was in the state of Tennessee and continued the matter to…