Gates v. People

Rising, C.

The plaintiff in error was prosecuted, before a justice of the peace in the town of Alamosa, for the violation of an ordinance of said town “concerning drays and other vehicles,” and upon trial was convicted and fined. Thereafter the defendant presented to said justice a bond for an appeal, which, in form and condition, was sufficient to effect an appeal to the county court from a judgment in a civil case. This bond was approved and filed by the justice within ten days from the rendition of judgment in said case; and the same, with papers in the case, and a transcript of the…