Court Opinion

ID: 7961934
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2022-09-09 00:45:56.651367+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T16:34:30.935912
License: Public Domain

The facts as alleged in the petition for. ■mandamus were as follows: McPhee was convicted in justice’s court of the offense -of assault and battery. He desired to appeal to the circuit court, and was required by the justice to recognize, in the form applicable to a case of felony, for his appearance at the circuit court, to answer to an information that might be filed against him for said offense. McPhee failed to appear, and was brought before the court upon a capias issued under How. Stat. sec. 9575, which provides that “when any person, under recognizance on an appeal in a criminal proceeding from a conviction and judgment of a justice of the peace, shall not appear according to the conditions of such recognizance, and the said recognizance shall have become forfeited by reason of the breach of the condition thereof, and such forfeiture shall have been entered on record by order of the circuit court, it shall be lawful for said court to issue a capias for the arrest of the appeüant or defendant named in such recognizance to bring him before the court to answer to the complaint or prosecution against him in the proceedings in which such appeal was taken;” and, despite his objection that the recognizance was void, was required to enter into a new recognizance for his appearance. McPhee then moved to quash the proceedings on the grounds:
a — That the circuit court acquired no jurisdiction over him, or the action.
b — That the first recognizance was not such an one as the justice of the peace could take or require to he given, nor such an one as could be forfeited under How. Stat. sec. 9575.
c — That the order requiring a new recognizance was void.
The motion was denied, and McPhee was required to go to trial. It appearing that the clerk had omitted to enter in the journal of the court the order declaring the first recognizance forfeited and directing that a capias issue to bring McPhee before the court, permission was given to enter said order nunc protune.