State v. Vaughan

An interlocutory judgment was rendered against the defendants upon a recognizance conditioned that defendant, Vaughan, should appear at the Madison Circuit Court, and answer to an indictment for gaming; and separate writs of scire facias issued against them, directed to the sheriff of Madison, the county in which the defendants resided. At the return term, upon the motion of Yaughan, these writs were quashed upon the ground, that a single writ, and not separate writs, should have issued. But no further judgment appears to have been rendered.

The State has brought this case before us on appeal;…