Union Benefit Fire Insurance v. People

Opinion by

Mr. Justice Pringle.

Plaintiff in error, Union Benefit Fire Insurance Co., *212seeks reversal of a judgment entered against it by reason of the forfeiture of a recognizance bond in the amount of $15,000, upon which one Roger L. Graves was principal and it was surety.

Union Benefit is the plaintiff in error here and will be referred to by name or as the surety. The People of the State of Colorado, the defendant in error, will be referred to as the People.

The record discloses the following chronology: On August 23, 1962, Graves was sentenced by a District Court in the State of Nevada to a…