Avant v. State
Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas
Writ of error from tbe District Court of Wilson. Tried below before Hon. JAMES C. WILSON. One T. J. Browning, on tbe 9th day of July, 1892, stood obarged before J. M. Young, a justice of tbe peace, with forgery, and on examination was, on said date, required to give bail in tbe sum of $300, conditioned that said Browning would make his personal appearance before the District Court of Karnes County on tbe 10th day of October, 1892, on which bond tbe plaintiffs in error were…
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Writ of error from tbe District Court of Wilson. Tried below before Hon. JAMES C. WILSON. One T. J. Browning, on tbe 9th day of July, 1892, stood obarged before J. M. Young, a justice of tbe peace, with forgery, and on examination was, on said date, required to give bail in tbe sum of $300, conditioned that said Browning would make his personal appearance before the District Court of Karnes County on tbe 10th day of October, 1892, on which bond tbe plaintiffs in error were sureties. Tbe date of tbe execution of this bond was given, and in fact was July 9, 1892, and shows to have been approved…
1Opinion of the Court
DAVIDSON, Judge.
The writ of error in this case is prosecuted from a judgment final by default upon a forfeited bail bond. The judgment nisi was entered against the parties severally, and this is assigned as error. There is no merit in the position. Willson’s Crim. Stats., secs. 1829, 1830; Kiser v. The State, 13 Texas Crim. App., 201; Allee v. The State, 28 Texas Crim. App., 531.
The judgment nisi recited that the. bond was entered into on July 12, 1892, whereas the scire facias served upon the parties defendant recites that it was entered into on the 9th of July, 1892. This constitutes a…
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