Manning v. State Ex Rel. Williams

CORN, V. C. J.

This is an appeal from a judgment rendered by the district court of Grady county, in an action brought to recover on a forfeited appearance bond upon which defendant was a surety.

The principal, Oscar Mills, together with Dwight Newlin and Fred Aber-crombie, were charged with second-degree burglary in a complaint filed before a justice of the peace on March 3, 1939. Preliminary hearing was set for April 4, 1939, and bond was set at $1,000, in default of which each was committed to jail.

March 13, 1939, defendant’s principal executed a bond in the justice of the peace court for…