Votaw v. State

Complaint by the state against Votaw, on a recognizance entered into by him and one Asher JR. Bowman, on the 18th of April, 1856, conditioned for the appearance of Bowman before the Jay Circuit Court, at the next term thereof, to answer an indictment for having counterfeiting apparatus in his possession. The complaint avers that the condition of the recognizance was forfeited in this, that said Asher JR. Bowman did not appear, &c., to answer said charge at the time aforesaid, but was wholly in default, although he was by the sheriff, &c., three times audibly called at the court-house, to…