Morrow v. State
Supreme Court of Kansas
Error from Miami County. The following is a copy of the obligation entered into by the defendant in the criminal case in the court below: “Be it remembered, that on the 1st day of April, A. D, 1869, Badcliffe Morrow personally appeared before me, a clerk of the district court in and for Miami county, and State of Kansas, and acknowledged himself to owe the State of Kansas the sum of $800, to be levied of his goods and chatties, lands and tenements and hereditaments if…
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Error from Miami County. The following is a copy of the obligation entered into by the defendant in the criminal case in the court below: “Be it remembered, that on the 1st day of April, A. D, 1869, Badcliffe Morrow personally appeared before me, a clerk of the district court in and for Miami county, and State of Kansas, and acknowledged himself to owe the State of Kansas the sum of $800, to be levied of his goods and chatties, lands and tenements and hereditaments if default be made in the following conditions, to-wit: The conditions of this recognizance is such that if the above named…
1Opinion of the Court
By the Court,
Valentine, J.
This action was originally brought in the district court of Miami county, by the county attorney in the name of the State of Kansas, and against the plaintiff in error, Katcliffe Morrow, on two certain instruments in writing, claimed to be recognizances in a criminal proceeding.
The only question in the case, is whether these instruments in writing are in law recognizances.
They were taken by the clerk of the district court, acknowledged before him, and approved by him.
During the progress of the trial in the court below, the county attorney introduced them in evidence…
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