152 Ga. 532
Decided January 12, 1922
Supreme Court of Georgia · decided 1922-01-12
The Court of Appeals propounded to this court the following questions (in Case No. 11671) : “ This was a suit to forfeit a bail-bond given in a criminal case.
Cited by 1 later decisions — most recently February 1922
1 state decisions
Relies on Foote v. Gordon · Cleveland v. Brown
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Decided 1922-01-12
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¶11. Under the facts stated in the question, the term “ accusation ” in the recognizance is broad enough to include the term “warrant.” See Cleveland v. Brown, 141 Ga. 829 (82 S. E. 243); Foole v. Gordon, 87 Ga. 277 (13 S E. 512).
¶22. Accordingly it should be presumed that the obligors in the bail-bond understood when they executed it that the term “ accusation ” therein referred to a “ warrant.”