3 Grant 314 | Pa. | 1861
Opinion by
The defendant pleaded nul tiel record, and payment with leave to the sci.fa., on the recognizance. There is no assignment of error to the judgment of the court on that plea, and as there was a general judgment for the plaintiff, we must presume that judgment was regularly given on it, especially as there is no complaint that it was not.
The second plea is payment with leave. That admitted the recognizance set out and the forfeiture alleged; and as that given in evidence agreed with that set out, there was no error
We do not see wherein the defendant was prejudiced by the admission of the record of the prosecution against Yan Scoil and others for conspiracy. Under the pleadings it w’as wholly immaterial. If it was to show a reason for naming the cestui que use, it was utterly irrelevant, but without any effect for good or ill. If the recognizance was for the prisoner’s appearance to answer a charge of larceny, the law provides for a disposition of the avails of it to the party injured, and it is there that claimants on the fund produced must make out their right to participate. If there be no one entitled it goes into the public treasury, if there be not an entire or partial remission of it ordered by the court. But certainly we think a recognizance in one kind of prosecution for one kind of crime, being forfeited, is not to be collected and distributed to persons by other misdeeds of the same offender.
Judgment affirmed.