State v. Mullen

This is an appeal from a judgment denying the petition of the National Automobile & Casualty Insurance Company, to whom we will refer as National, or appellant, to vacate a $5,000 judgment entered against it, pursuant to forfeiture of a $5,000 bail bond, upon which it was surety for the defendant, Dewey M. Mullen.

On March 29, 1962, the defendant Mullen entered a plea of guilty to the crime with which he was charged by information, of burglary in the second degree. Pending a presentence investigation, defendant was released from custody on posting the aforesaid $5,000 bail bond. On August 8,…