Case ID: ga-app_32/html/0490-01.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "Luke, J.", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

15573.
    Hubbard v. Walker, Governor.
    Decided July 15, 1924.
    Forfeiture of recognizance; from Forsyth superior court — Judge Blair. March 27, 1924.
    
      John T. Dorsey, for plaintiff in error.
    
      John S. Wood, solicitor-general> contra.
   Luke, J.

1. Where the principal in a criminal recognizance conditioned for his appearance to answer a specific criminal charge therein designated is subsequently arrested for an. entirely different and distinct offense, and, being found guilty of the latter offense, is delivered into the custody of the State, to serve a term upon the chain-gang in accordance with the sentence of a court of competent jurisdiction of this State, and where, after entering upon the service of his sentence, he is paroled and the bond is not forfeited until after the term of his sentence has expired, the sureties on the bond are not ipso facto discharged. S'ee, in this connection, Benson v. Harris, 19 Ga. App. 328 (2) (91 S. E. 491), and the criticism there made of the decision in Cooper v. Brown, 10 Ga. App. 730 (73 S. E. 1101).

2. Under the foregoing ruling and the facts alleged in the answer of the defendant to the nule nisi and scire facias issued in the instant case, the court did not err in striking, on motion of the solicitor-general, the defendant’s answer and in thereafter rendering judgment against him.

Judgment affirmed.

Broyles, C. J., amd Bloodworth, J., concur.