Stroud v. State

Appellant was indicted, tried and convicted, for playing cards, and was fined ten dollars, and has appealed to this court for a revision of the judgment entered up against him. The Attorney General moves to dismiss the case for the want of a sufficient recognizance, and under the authority of the oft repeated decisions of this court, we are bound to declare the recognizance in this case fatally defective. The recognizance is not in accordwitb the requisition of the statute, because the defendant and securities are bound in one joint recognizance, when the statute *651apparently requires that…