Hulin v. People

Hulin and the other plaintiffs in error3 who were his. *325sureties, were sued on his official bond as clerk of the state prison, for alleged frauds and peculations.

Two preliminary questions were presented: First, whether the bond should not have been prosecuted by the agent of the state prison; and second, whether certain rules of the prison inspectors, supposed to have an important bearing on the case, were legally proved.

The agent and clerk are required to give bonds “ to the people of the state,” the former in twenty thousand dollars, and the. latter in five thousand dollars, conditioned for…