Case Name: Riley Ware and George I. Wilson v. The State
Court: Texas Courts of Appeals
Jurisdiction: Texas
Decision Date: 1886-05-15
Citations: 21 Tex. Ct. App. 328
Docket Number: No. 3907
Parties: Riley Ware and George I. Wilson v. The State.
Judges: 
Reporter: Texas Court of Appeals Reports
Volume: 21
Pages: 328–329

Head Matter:
[No. 3907.]
Riley Ware and George I. Wilson v. The State.
Scire Facias.—Judgment Nisi is insufficient to support a final judgment forfeiting a bail bond or recognizance unless it recites that the same will be made final unless good cause be shown at the next term of the court why the principal did not appear.
Error from the District Court of Kerr. Tried below before the Hon. T. M. Paschal.
The writ of error in this case was prosecuted from a judgment final upon the bail bond of Riley Ware, held under an indictment for theft of a horse. The amount of the bond and judgment was twelve hundred dollars,
Tarleion & Keller, for the appellant.
J. H. Burts, Assistant Attorney General, for the State.
Opinion delivered May 15, 1886.

Opinion:
White, Presiding Judge.
It has been repeatedly held under the provisions of Article 441, Code of Criminal Procedure, that a judgment nisi is fatally defective, and will not sustain a judgment final, rendered upon a forfeited bail bond or recognizance, unless it states that the same will be made final unless good cause be shown at the next term of the court why the principal did not appear. (McIntyre v. The State, 19 Texas Ct. App., 443, and authorities cited therein.)
Tested by this rule, the judgment nisi in the present case is fatally defective, wherefore the final judgment as rendered m the court below is reversed and the cause remanded.
Reversed and remanded.