Mooneys v. State

Opinion of the court delivered by

Judge Peck.

The Mooneys had been arrested on a peace warrant, and bound to appear at the county court. They appeared, and were bound from term to term for two terms, when the prosecutor not requiring further coercion against them, they were discharged, but taxed with costs to a considerable amount; amongst other items, $¡5, a tax fee to the attorney for the state, against each.

They obtained a certiorari and supersedeas to the judgment for costs to the circuit court. That court dismissed the writs, and gave another judgment for costs of that court, together with…