Ex Parte Moore

FOSTER, Justice.

This is a petition for a writ of mandamus to the Hon. Gardner F. Goodwyn, Judge of the Tenth Judicial Circuit at Bessemer, directing him to set aside a judgment on the forfeiture of a bail bond, in a criminal case where the defendant did not appear.

We understand the judgment to be conditional as provided in section 213, Title 15, Code of 1940. But it does not clearly appear so to be. There is no certified copy of it as recorded on the minutes, but apparently only a docket memorandum of the judge. There must be such a conditional judgment followed by notice, as required by…