Case ID: tex-ct-app_12/html/0416-01.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "Willson, J.", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

R. W. Thomas et als. v. The State
    1. Bail Bond.—Judgment nisi which fails to state that “the same will be made final unless good cause be shown at the next term of the court why the defendant did not appear ” is fatally defective.
    3. Same.—An examining court is authorized to take a bail bond requiring the accused to appear before the District Court.
    Appeal from the District Court of Tom Green. Tried below before the Hon. A. O. Cooley.
    
      H. L. Bentley, for the appellants.
    
      J. H. McLeary, Attorney General, for the State
   Willson, J.

This is an appeal from a judgment final upon a forfeited bail bond. The judgment nisi is fatally defective because it omits to state “ that the same will be made final unless good cause be shown at the next term of the court why the defendant did not appear.” Code Crim. Proc. 441; Collins v. State, ante, p. 356.

The objections urged to the validity of the bond, by defendant’s counsel, we do not think are tenable. It is a bail bond taken under the order of an examining court, binding the party to appear before the District Court, and to answer to the charge of robbery, and we think the bond possesses all the legal requisites of a valid bail bond.

The judgment is reversed and the cause remanded.

Reversed and remanded.