Burton v. State

This was a saire facias against Jesse Parnell, John Burton, and William M. Watkins, on a joint and *363several recognizance. The writ states that on, &c., before Jacob Jones, an associate judge of Vigo county, &c., the defendants entered into a recognizance, which was afterwards filed in the clerk’s office and recorded, &c. The recognizance, which the writ professes to set out in hcec verba, commences as follows: “State of Indiana, Vigo county, ss. Be it remembered that on the seventh day of April, in the year one thousand- eight hundred and forty-one, John Burton and William Watkins, of Vigo…