State v. Toups

On Motion to Dismiss.

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Watkins, J.

From a judgment forfeiting the appearance bond of a party charged in an indictment with the crime of larceny the *897surety has appealed, and the State seeks to dismiss the appeal, on the ground that this court has no jurisdiction ratione materise, because such forfeiture is a civil matter, and the amount of the bond being only $250 it is below the lower limit of its constitutional cognizance.

This question has been frequently solved and definitely settled otherwise by the decisions of this court, and notably in the…