Commonwealth v. Edwards

Judge Unedrwood,

delivered the opinion of the Court.

Haden Edwards was apprehended and brought before the mayor of the city of Louisville, to answer a charge for setting up and keeping a faro table, contrary to the stathte. The parties not being reacb'f°r trial,the mayor admitted Edwards to bail and took .his recognizance, with T. G. Johnson as surety, to appear in the mayor's court oti the ensuing Saiurdadi for trial. Edwards did not appear, and the mayor returned the recognizance to the clerk’s office of the circuit court, for Jefferson county." The circuit cour^ a^ their May term, 1828,…