Lee v. State
Court of Appeals of Texas
Appeal from the District Court of Lamar. Tried below before the Hon. D. H. Scott. The opinion states the case. The amount of the bond was five hundred dollars. The amount adjudged against the appellants was fifty dollars.
1Opinion of the Court
Hurt, Judge.
Lee was indicted for forgery, and Schmidt and Parrott were sureties on his recognizance, the amount of which was five hundred dollars. Judgment ni si was taken on October 22, 1886. On October 25 Lee surrendered himself to the sheriff, was placed in jail, and in November, 1886, was tried and convicted.
Schmidt and Parrott answered the scire facias, first, the surrender and conviction of their principal. The surrender to the sheriff, being after the judgment ni si, presents no reason why the judgment ni si should not be made final. If before the judgment ni si the principal be…
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