Sloan v. People
Illinois Supreme Court
This was a scire facias on a recognizance in the Randolph Circuit Court. It recites that James Campbell was indicted for a rape, on the 6th of April, 1858, in said county, and recognizance ordered in $800; that on the 80th of April? 1858, “ there was executed before the sheriff of said county, a bond or recognizance” by said Campbell, and said appellees and others, in the penal sum of $800, which was filed on the day last aforesaid, with the clerk of said Circuit Court.
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This was a scire facias on a recognizance in the Randolph Circuit Court. It recites that James Campbell was indicted for a rape, on the 6th of April, 1858, in said county, and recognizance ordered in $800; that on the 80th of April? 1858, “ there was executed before the sheriff of said county, a bond or recognizance” by said Campbell, and said appellees and others, in the penal sum of $800, which was filed on the day last aforesaid, with the clerk of said Circuit Court. And that on the 6th of September, 1859, an order of forfeiture was entered of record in said .court, and scire facias…
1Opinion of the CourtCaton, C. J.
A bill of indictment was found against the prisoner while he was in jail on a preliminary mittimus. The amount of bail was fixed by the Circuit Court, when the court continued the cause and adjourned, while the prisoner was still in the custody of the sheriff, he not having offered the requisite bail. After the adjournment of the court, the prisoner tendered to the sheriff sufficient surety, whose recognizance was taken by the sheriff in due form, and the prisoner discharged. He failed to appear at the subsequent term, according to the exigency of the recognizance, which was regularly…
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