Briggs v. People

William Collins, as principal, and the.appellants, Briggs and Meek, as sureties, entered into a recognizance, payable to the People of the State of Illinois, acknowledging themselves, “ severally and respectively,” to owe and be indebted to them in the penal sum of $300, providing for the appearance of Collins to the next term of the Circuit Court of Woodford county, to answer to the charge of rape, which bond was entered into before a justice of the peace September 21, 1881. Collins being indicted at the next term of the circuit court, and failing to appear, forfeiture was entered against…