STATE v. DAVIS

No. 6627.

350 P.2d 748 (1960)

67 N.M. 6

STATE of New Mexico, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. William C. DAVIS, E.G. Foster and C.L. Smith, Defendants-Appellants.

Supreme Court of New Mexico.

Rehearing Denied April 11, 1960.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Lynell G. Skarda, Clovis, for appellants.

Hilton A. Dickson, Jr., Atty. Gen., B. J. Baggett, Asst. Atty. Gen., Boston E. Witt, Asst. Atty. Gen., for appellee.


CARMODY, Justice.

Appeal by the defendants from a judgment rendered against them, as sureties, on a bond given in the appeal of a criminal case.

The issue for our determination is whether the sureties are liable under a single bond signed by them on behalf of two defendants, one of whom died prior to the affirmance of a criminal conviction by the supreme court.

In 1957, two men, named Spahr and Davis, were convicted of selling alcoholic liquors without...

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