Court Opinion

ID: 6945751
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2022-07-24 01:25:26.297579+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T16:07:54.572132
License: Public Domain

Smith, Justice, delivered the opinion of the Court:(1)  The record in this case shows a judgment on a bond or recognisance of the defendants to appear and testify on behalf of the People, at a Circuit Court to be holden at Edwardsville on the 4th Monday of October, 1835. The defendants, on being called, did not appear, and their default was entered, and a final judgment rendered for the penalty of the recognisance and costs. The error assigned is that this final judgment was irregular. This we cannot doubt. Instead of a final judgment, a scire facias should have been sued out against the defendants, to show cause why judgment and execution should not be had, or an action instituted on the bond to recover the penalty. The final judgment is reversed, and the cause remanded for further proceedings. Judgment reversed.   Wilson, Chief Justice, did not sit in this cause.