25 Ind. 384 | Ind. | 1865
This was a suit by the State, on a recognizance executed by John C. Fleece, John Fleece and James-Daugherty, on the 5th of May, 1863, in the sum of $2,000, conditioned that said John G. Fleece should be and appear before the judge of the Montgomery Circuit Court, on the first day of the next ensuing term thereof, and answer to a charge of assault and battery with intent to murder, and abide the judgment of said court. The breach alleged is, that the said John G. Fleece did not appear before the judge of the said Montgomery Circuit Court on the first day of the term next succeeding the date of said recognizance, though three times audibly called and required so to do. The complaint avers a proper judgment of forfeiture.
There was no process served on, or appearance by John C. Fleece, the principal in the recognizance. The sureties appeared and answered, that the grand jury, at the said >September term, 1863, of said court, investigated said charge^ against said defendant, John G. Fleece, and found no bill of " indictment against him for said alleged ofíense, and that' neither the said John G., nor., his sureties in said recognizance were called, on said recognizance, until the said grand., jury had ignored an indictment for said alleged offense,, and had been discharged by the court; nor had said John G. Fleece at any time since been indicted for or upon said charge. The court sustained a demurrer to the answer, and, the defendants refusing to answer further, rendered judgment against them for the amount of the recognizance.
The ruling of the court in sustaining the demurrer to the answer raises the only question in the ease. The ruling of the court, we think, was correct. It was the duty of the principal in the recognizance to appear on the first day of
The judgment is ¡affirmed, with costs.