State v. Arrington

Calhoun, Judge:

This case is before the Court on appeal from a final judgment for $15,000 rendered by the Circuit Court of Marion County in a civil action upon a recognizance previously entered into by Joseph Jewell Arrington, as principal, and The Stuyvesant Insurance Company, as surety, in a criminal case then pending before a justice of the peace which involved a felony charge against Arrington.

Code, 62-1-14, authorizes a justice of the peace to take from an accused person a “recognizance * * * for the appearance of the accused in the circuit, intermediate or criminal court * * (Italics…