Court Opinion

ID: 4906146
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Date Created: 2021-09-03 05:57:44.073413+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T08:13:07.740875
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Willson, Judge.
This writ of error is prosecuted from a judgment final upon a forfeited bail bond.
It is shown in the record that on a former trial of the case there was a verdict and judgment rendered in favor .of the in the suit, plaintiffs in error. Upon motion of the county attorney that judgment was set aside, and a new trial was granted the State, and upon the same motion, and by the same order of the court, the judgment nisi was also set aside, and thereupon the bond was again declared forfeited, and a. second judgment nisi rendered thereon; and it was upon this second judgment nisi that the judgment now before us was and entered.
We have held at the present term that as a proceeding upon a forfeited bail bond is a criminal and not a civil action, the State is not entitled to a new trial, and that in such case when a judgment is rendered in favor of the defendant, it is conclusive, and terminates the suit finally. (Perry v. The State, ante, p. 166.)
If the original forfeiture or judgment nisi was defective, the county attorney should have had the same amended and by proper motion, before proceeding to trial upon it. After trial and verdict and judgment for defendant, further were coram non judice and void. The judgment is reversed and the cause dismissed.
Reversed and dismissed,
Opinion delivered May 23, 1883.