Evans v. Pringle

*775OPINION

MASSEY, Chief Justice.

The Sheriff of Tarrant County, Texas, the Honorable Lon Evans, has appealed the judgment of permanent injunction preventing him from collecting post judgment interest from the Brantley Pringle and Barry Johnson sureties on a forfeited bail bond. Affirmed.

Magless v. State, 112 Tex.Cr.R. 646, 18 S.W.2d 669 (1929) initially held that in instances where there has been decreed forfeiture of a bail bond or recognizance, with a judgment absolute rendered in the action on the forfeited bond or recognizance in the total amount of the bond (it cannot be for more), no…