Kwik Bond v. State

Carley, Chief Judge.

In each of these four cases, appellant-surety executed a bond on behalf of a criminal defendant. The bonds gave notice of the specific dates and times that appellant’s principals would be arraigned but also required that they appear for arraignment from day-to-day and from term-to-term thereafter. Appellant’s principals did not appear for their originally scheduled arraignments. The trial court reset the arraignments for several months later. Notice of the rescheduled arraignment dates was received by appellant but its principals again failed to appear. After conducting a…