Case ID: tex-crim_170/html/0494-01.html
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Author: {"author": "DICE, Judge WOODLEY, Judge", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

Willie Henry Thomas, et al, v. State
    No. 32,388.
    November 16, 1960
    State’s Motion for Rehearing Overruled December 27, 1960
    State’s Second Motion for Rehearing Overruled January 25, 1961
    
      P. P. Ballowe, Dallas 11, for appellant.
    
      Henry Wade, Criminal District Attorney, James M. Williamson, Assistant District Attorney, Dallas, and Leon Douglas, State’s Attorney, Austin, for the state.
   DICE, Judge

This is an appeal by E. Colley Sullivan and M. E. Fields as sureties upon the bail bond of Willie Henry Thomas from a final judgment of the County Criminal Court No. 2 of Dallas County upon a forfeiture of said bond.

The citation issued and served upon appellants, drawn under Rule 101 of the Texas Rules of Civil Procedure, summoned them “to be and appear before the County Criminal Court No. 2 of Dallas County, Texas, at the Court House of Said County, by filing a written answer at or before 10:00 o’clock A.M. of the Monday next after the expiration of twenty (20) days after the date of service of this citation, and show cause why the forfeiture of said bond should not be made final.”

In the Cause No. 32,385, styled Eddie Blue, et al, Appellants v. The State of Texas, Appellee, this day decided, (page 449 this volume), 341 S.W. 2d 917, a similar citation, drawn under Rule 101 of the Texas Rules of Civil Procedure, was held by this court to be insufficient to obtain service upon the sureties in a bond forfeiture proceeding.

For the reasons stated therein, the citation in the instant case is likewise insufficient, and appellant’s motion to quash the same should have been by the court sustained.

The judgment is reversed and the cause remanded.

Opinion opproved by the Court.

ON STATE’S MOTION FOR REHEARING

WOODLEY, Judge

The State’s motion for rehearing is overruled. See opinion on rehearing in Eddie Blue, et al v. State, No. 32,885. (Page 449 this volume) ,341 S.W. 2d 917.