State v. Sullivan

This is an appeal from a judgment in solid»T against the principal and securities on a bail bond.

The only point on which appellants rely in this court, is as to the legality of that part of the judgment which allows interest from the day of judgment.

They contend, that the amount of the bond is a penalty which the law- imposes on them; that its exact amount is prescribed by law, and the lower court had no right to make it more onerous by obliging them to pay interest;.-

They further aver, that there is no analogy between this and civil cases, in which the law expressly provides, that interest…