People ex rel. DeWitt County v. Argo

Mr. Presiding Justice Philbrick

delivered the opinion of the court.

One Fred Joyce was taken before Lawrence Murphy, a justice of the peace in DeWitt county, on a charge of burglary, and was bound over by the justice of the peace to appear at the next term of the Circuit Court in DeWitt county, convening on the 11th day of November, 1912. He entered into a recognizance in the sum of two hundred dollars for his appearance and defendants in error became his sureties in this, recognizanee. Joyce failed to appear in the Circuit Court in accordance with the conditions of his recognizance, a default…