State v. Desforges
Supreme Court of Louisiana
Appeal from the Criminal Court of the First District, Ganonge, J. The fourth section of the act of 1st April, 1835, (Acts, p. 179,) must be considered, as referring to recognizances taken by the City Magistrates, for criminal offences against the City regulations ; as an act, passed the very next day, (April, 2d — see Acts of 1835, p. 219,) provides, that all fines and penalties whatever incurred by persons bound over to appear before the Criminal Court of the First…
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Appeal from the Criminal Court of the First District, Ganonge, J. The fourth section of the act of 1st April, 1835, (Acts, p. 179,) must be considered, as referring to recognizances taken by the City Magistrates, for criminal offences against the City regulations ; as an act, passed the very next day, (April, 2d — see Acts of 1835, p. 219,) provides, that all fines and penalties whatever incurred by persons bound over to appear before the Criminal Court of the First District, shall be prosecuted before it by the Attorney General. The act of 1st April, 1835, p. 179, was repealed by the. act of…
1Opinion of the Court
Simon, J.*
Castera and Andry, two of the defendants, are appellants from a judgment on a bond taken by the Recorder of the Second Municipality of New Orleans, for the appearance before him of Desforges, their principal, on a charge of having embez*258zled, and converted to his own use, funds of the Commercial Bank of New Orleans.
The petition states, that the bond sued on was taken by the Recorder i and that, by reason and in consequence of the non-appearance of Desforges, before said Recorder, to answer the complaint lodged against him, and of his departure from the State without the leave of said…
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