Bigelow v. State
Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas
Appeal from the District Court of Franklin. Tried below before Hon. John L. Sheppard. Appeal from a conviction for adultery; penalty, a fine of $100. The Assistant Attorney-General moved to dismiss the appeal, because the recognizance was not conditioned as required by law. The recognizance is set forth in the opinion. No statement of the case necessary.
1Opinion of the Court
DAVIDSON, Judge.
Appellant was charged by information with adultery. The information is in proper form. Omitting the' prior portions of the recognizance, it states that appellant and “his sureties acknowledge themselves jointly and severally to owe and be indebted to the State of Texas in the penal sum of three hundred dollars, and the said sureties in the penal sum of three hundred dollars each, to be void on condition, however, that the said George Bigelow, as principal, who was on the 26th day of November, 1896, duly tried and convicted of the offense of adultery, and gave notice of appeal…
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