27 Tex. 236 | Tex. | 1863
One of the requisites prescribed by article 264 of the Code of Criminal Procedure, of a sufficient bail bond, is, that the offence of which the defendant is accused must be distinctly named in the bond, and that it appear therefrom that he is accused of some offence against the laws of the State. It is not sufficient, if some offence known to the laws of the State he named in the bond. The offence named must be that of which the defendant stands charged by the indictment. In this case, the defendant was indicted for an aggravated assault, but the offence named in the bail bond upon which the forfeiture is taken, is an
The judgment is reversed, and the scire facias dismissed.
Reversed and dismissed.