Opinion

Hannay v. State

  • 92 Tex. Crim. 500
  • 224 S.W. 608
Court
Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas
Filed
Nov 1, 1922
Status
Published
Author
Hawkins
On the bench
Hawkins
Cited by
0 cases
Authority
More cited than 1.5%

The opinion

HAWKINS, Judge.

— Judgment final on a forfeited bail bond was rendered against Henry Williams as principal, and other parties as sureties from which. Ms appeal is prosecuted.

The bond is as follows:

“THE STATE OP TEXAS,

“Whereas, on the-day of-, A. D. 1918, Henry Williams was arrested and is now in the custody of E. M. Castle, by virtue of a committment issued out of the JUSTICE COURT, Precinct No. 5, of Waller County, Texas, upon a charge by . . . with the offense of Theft of a yearling, filed in said Court-and his bond fixed at the sum of Three Hundred and Fifty Dollars.

“No. 2, Therefore, We the said Henry Willaims as principal, and -and --as sureties, acknowledge ourselves to owe and be indebted to the State of Texas, in the sum of Three Hundred Fifty and No/100 Dollars, for payment of which, well and truly to be made, we bind ourselves, our heirs and legal representatives, firmly by these presents.

“Conditioned that the said Henry Williams shall be and personally appear before the said District Court of Waller County, Texas, at

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the October Term of said Court, at the Court house of said County, in the town of Hempstead, on the 7th of October, A. D. 1918, then and there to answer The State of Texas, on a charge Felon; Theft, and there remain before said Court from day to day and term to term, and until discharged from further liability thereon according to law.

“Witness our hands this the 19th, day of August, 1918.

Henry Williams R E. Hannay B. F. Smith Ernest Lawrence Roy Chapman.

“Taken and approved this the 20th, day of August, 1918.

E. M. Castle.”

It will be noted that the condition in the bond requires Williams to appear before the District Court of Waller County to answer “on a charge' of felony theft.” From recitals in the judgment

nisi

and

scire facias

we presume Williams had been bound over by the justice of the peace, sitting as an Examining Court, to wait the action of the grand jury at the October Term of the district court, but this is by no means made clear by the record. The judgment

nisi

recites that the forfeiture was taken on a bond conditioned that Williams should appear before the District Court “to answer the

indictment

against him charging him with theft of cattle,” and the

scire facias

writ in this respect follows the

nisi

judgment. If the bond was taken in obedience to an order of’ an Examining Court no indictment was pending at the time; none is shown by the record, and there is no allegation in the

scire facias

writ that one was subsequently returned. When the bond was offered in evidence objection was urged because it was at variance with the one described in the judgment

nisi

and

scire facias

writ. This objection should have been sustained. See Avant v. State, 26 S. W. Rep., 411 ; Brown v. State, 28 Texas Crim. App., 298. In view of another trial proper amendments should be made.

The judgment is reversed and the cause remanded.

Reversed and remanded.

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