Robinson v. People

This was debt on the official bond of Bobinson, as sheriff of Madison county. The breaches assigned were that the sheriff, in serving a writ of replevin in the case of Jageman v. Tebbetts, took an insufficient bond, and also that he failed to return the bond taken, with the writ, to the clerk’s office.

On the trial the court instructed the jury, that if they believed from the evidence the sheriff “ failed to take a bond before replevying said property, or that he took a bond insufficient, either in amount or with insufficient securities, or that he failed to return a bond in the time and…