West v. Colquitt
Supreme Court of Georgia
Criminal Law. Bail. Principal and Surety., Before Judge Willis. Taylor Superior Court. April Term, 1883. Reported in the decision.
1Opinion of the Court
Jackson, Chief Justice.
The single question which this record makes is, whether the sureties on a recognizance to produce the body of the prisoner to answer for one offence are discharged by a subsequent arrest on another offence, and recognizance with different sureties for appearance thereunder ?
In Buffington vs. Smith, governor, 58 Ga., 341, this court held that where the state held the principal in her penitentiary, she could not forfeit the bond of the sureties to produce his body to answer another indictment, for the obvious reason that she alone could produce him and try hitn, if she…
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