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17 Ga. 437

Cooper v. State

Supreme Court of Georgia

Decided February 15, 1855

Supreme Court of Georgia · decided 1855-02-15

üa. sa. and illegality, from Pike Superior Court. Decided by Judge Starke, October Term, 1854. Samuel Moore being indicted in the County of Pike, gave bond for his appearance, with Leroy W. Cooper as security, dated December 20th, 1850. The defendant failing to appear at April Term, 1852, (scire facias having previously issued,) judgment was entered against Cooper alone, for the penalty of the bond.

Decided 1855-02-15

¶1*438By the Court.

Benning, J.

¶2delivering the opinion.

¶3[1.] The scire facias on a forfeited bail bond, in an indictment, has to issue from the Court in which is the indictment. (Cobb's Dig. 861, 862.)

¶4The indictment in this case was, to a certainty, at first, in the Cohrt of Pike Co. The Court of that county was the one in which the indictment was made. And whether the indictment ever got out of that Court into the Court in Spalding, does not appear; forit does not appear whether the offence charged in the indictment was committed in that part of Pike which was afterwards converted into Spalding, or in that part which was allowed to remain Pike.

¶5For aught that appears, then, the indictment still remained in the Court in Pike County, notwithstanding the Act of the Legislature, which, out of a part of Pike County and parts of other counties, made Spalding.

¶6This being so, for aught that appears, the Court in Pike was the Court from which the scire facias against the bail had to be issued. And unless something appeared going to show that the Court in Pike had ceased to be such Court, it is not to be presumed that it had ceased to he such.

¶7There is, therefore, no foundation, in fact, for the ground of the affidavit of illegality, to the effect that the ca. sa. should have issued from the Court in Spalding, and not from the Court in Pike.

¶8The Act of 1851-2 seems, indeed, not to have provided for the transfer of criminal cases, but only of civil. (Acts, 60.)

¶9Of the other grounds contained in the affidavit of illegality, none were insisted on in the argument'before this Court.

¶10The judgment of the Court below, over-ruling the affidavit of illegality, ought therefore to be affirmed.

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