Case ID: tex-ct-app_22/html/0064-01.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "White, Presiding Judge.", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

[No. 2323.]
    Lon Roberts et al. v. The State.
    Opinion delivered October 23, 1886.
    Scire Facias—Sureties on a Bail Bond or Recognizance are relieved from liability by a second arrest and bail or recognizance of their principal on the same indictment.
    Appeal from the District Court of Bell Tried below before the Hon. W. A. Blackburn.
    This appeal was prosecuted from a judgment final forfeiting the recognizance of Lon Roberts, bailed under an indictment charging him with the theft of cattle. The amount of the recognizance and judgment was six hundred dollars.
    
      James Boyd, for the appellant.
    
      J. H. Burts, Assistant Attorney General for the State.
   White, Presiding Judge.

According to agreed statement of facts as contained in the record, the case here appealed comes directly within the rule announced by our Supreme Court in Peacock v. the State, 44 Texas, 11, and followed by this court in Lindley v. the State, 17 Texas Ct. App., 120, which is that “the sureties on a bail bond or recognizance are relieved from liability by a second arrest and bail or recognizance of their principal on the same indictment.” The judgment is reversed and the prosecution dismisssed.

Reversed and dismissed.