Shook v. People

Citations

• 39 Ill. 443

Syllabus

<p>1. Recognizance—liability of surety where the principal is taken by military authority. Where M. was in jail, on indictment for larceny, and S. voluntarily became his bail, and took him to another county for the purpose of putting him in the army as a substitute, as a matter of speculation, and an officer of the United States took M. from the surety as a deserter, and sent him to his command to serve two more years, held, that these facts did not discharge the surety from his liability under the bail bond, in a proceeding by scire facias, upon a forfeiture thereof.</p>