State v. Leavell

The material facts contained in the record, necessary for us to notice, are these;—

On the 26th day of August, 1826, Ezekiel Leavell, Samuel D. Wells, John Dougherty, Jesse Forkner, and George Handley, made their bond jointly and severally to the state of Indiana, for 5,000 dollars, subject to a condition thereunder written in these words: — “that if the above bound and named Ezekiel Leavell shall faithfully discharge the duties of his office as sheriff for and within the county of Henry, &c., and shall and will keep and deliver over according to law, to the proper persons, all sums of money…