Guenther v. Whiteacre

Chrjstiancy, Oh. J.

Plaintiff in error was a justice of the peace, and defendant in error was convicted before him of an assault,, and sentenced to pay a fine of twenty-five dollars, in default of which he was to stand committed to the house of correction for sixty days. The justice at once made out the commitment and put it into the hands of an officer to be executed. But the defendant, wishing to appeal, as he had a right to (and remaining in or near the justice’s office), within twenty minutes after the sentence was pronounced, a bail bond (as the record designated it), in a penalty of five…