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Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

The State, on the relation of Greene v. Maners.
    
      Thursday, May 30.
    A prosecution for surety of the peace is a criminal proceeding, and where the act authorizing such prosecutions is silent, the criminal practice governs.
    APPEAL from the Owen Common Pleas.
   Per Curiam.

A prosecution for surety of the peace is a criminal prosecution. 4 Blacks. Comm. 251; The State v. Abrams, 4 Blackf. 440.

The practice, therefore, in criminal cases governs, where the act authorizing such. prosecutions is silent upon a point of practice under it.

A. T. Bose, for the appellant. 5

_ _ _ „ ,, F. J. Brown, for the appellee.

The judgment is affirmed, with costs.