Burris v. State
Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas
L. F. Burris was indicted in the District Court of La Salle County, in case number 530, and with the appellants executed the bail bond in the sum of $500, upon which there was a forfeiture on the 23rd day of December, 1891, and judgment nisi was rendered thereon by the court, and the entry of this judgment nisi was not such an entry as the statute required, but was defective in form only.
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L. F. Burris was indicted in the District Court of La Salle County, in case number 530, and with the appellants executed the bail bond in the sum of $500, upon which there was a forfeiture on the 23rd day of December, 1891, and judgment nisi was rendered thereon by the court, and the entry of this judgment nisi was not such an entry as the statute required, but was defective in form only. This cause was numbered on the docket 315. The sureties were cited and appeared, and answered by a general denial; and thereafter the district attorney dismissed case number 315 by the following entry in the…
1Opinion of the Court
HENDEBSON, Judge.
This is an appeal from a final judgment on a forfeited bail bond.
■ It appears from the record in this case that one L. F. Burris, alias Frank Burris, was indicted in the District Court of La Salle County for •theft of one head of cattle (case on the docket of said court number 530.) The defendant was arrested on the 23rd day of December, 1891, and on the same day executed the appearance bail bond in said case, in the sum of $500, with A. P. West and E. W. Alderman as sureties. On the 12th day of May, 1892, at a regular term of the District Court of said La Salle County, the…
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