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2 Morr. St. Cas. 1362

Curry v. State

Mississippi Supreme Court

Decided July 1, 1872

Mississippi Supreme Court · decided 1872-07-01

Cassidy, J. A recognizance was taken by a justice of the peace for the .appearance of one McKeevin to answer a charge of forgery. Curry, the plaintiff in error, was surety.

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Decided 1872-07-01

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Per Curiam :

¶1The first error assigned is the refusal of the court to quash the scire facias, upon the ground that the recognizance was void.

¶2The recognizance was conditional for the appearance of defendant below “ at the next term of the circuit court,” to be held, &c., “ on the first Monday in May next, 1859.”

¶3The scire facias recited a recognizance to appear “ on the sixth Monday after the fourth Monday in March, being the second Monday in May.”

¶4The recognizance was not void. See Code, 139, art. 201; lb., 620, art. 291; lb., 632, art. 368.

¶5Second and third. The plea of nul tiel record was properly overruled after the amendment of this scire facias, which the court possessed the undoubted right to allow, so as to make it conform substantially to the recognizance upon which it was founded.

¶6The scire facias is to be regarded as a complaint in the proceeding, as well as the process or writ, by which the defendant is summoned to appear.

¶7Let the judgment be affirmed.

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