Case ID: la-ann_46/html/0550-01.html
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Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

No. 11,442.
    State of Louisiana vs. Sonny Alexander.
    On Judgment Against Suretv on Appearance Bond.
    The appellant seehs to avail himself ol the delays in civil proceedings, in which a devolutive appeal may he talcen within one year from date of judgment - Forfeiture of bonds under act of March 11, 1837, Revised Statutes, Sec. 1032, is a proceeding criminal in its character. State vs. Cassidy, 7 An. 276; State vs, Williams, 37 An. 200
    
      Appeals Irom sentences and judgments in tlie Criminal District Court of the parish, of Orleans must betaken in conformity with the statute regulating appeals in criminal cases.
    Judgments forfeiting bonds by said court are controlled by the same statute.. State ys. Burns, 38 An. 363.
    The judgment of forfeiture was rendered January 17,1893; the appeal was taken. January 15,1891. The appeal is dismissed.
    APPEAL from the Criminal District Court, Parish of Orleans. Ferguson, J.
    
    
      E. A. O’Sullivan, City Attorney, for Appellee.
    
      Jos. D. Kiernan, J. Z. Spearing and Bernard Titohe Attorneys for-Surety, Appellant.
   The opinion of the court was delivered by Breaux, J.