State v. . Roper

The defendant was convicted, and there was judgment against him, from which he appealed to this Court. He was required to give a bond of fifty dollars on the appeal. He gave a bond in the sum of fifty dollars, with one John Ingram as surety, who made oath that he "was worth the sum of fifty dollars over and above all exemptions allowed by law, personal and real, and over all his debts and liabilities."

When the case was called for argument in this Court, the Attorney General moved to dismiss the appeal, upon the ground that the bond or undertaking was not justified by the surety in double the…