Thomas v. State

Citations

• 62 Miss. 184

Syllabus

<p>Scibe Facias. Return of service by reading. Effect.</p> <p>A return on a scire facias, showing that the writ was “executed” by the officer “reading” it to the defendant, discloses a bad service, because not in any of the modes prescribed by the statute; though if all of such return, except the word “ executed ” had been omitted, it would have imported a legal service under $ 1528 of the Code of 1880.</p>