Clifford v. Marston

The respondent, as district attorney for the sixth judicial district of the state, including within it the county of Umatilla, commenced an action in the circuit court of said county against the appellants, upon an undertaking alleged to have been executed by them as sureties for John P. Looney, that he should appear and answer a certain indictment found against him and one Robt. Looney, by the grand jury in and for the said county of Umatilla, charging them with the crime of larceny of 240 head of sheep, and upon which they had been admitted to bail, in accordance with an order made by lion.…