Merkle v. Bolles
This text of 6 Blackf. 288 (Merkle v. Bolles) is published on Counsel Stack Legal Research, covering Indiana Supreme Court primary law. Counsel Stack provides free access to over 12 million legal documents including statutes, case law, regulations, and constitutions.
Opinion
SCIFE FACIAS issued by a justice of the peace against bail entered on the justice’s docket for the stay of execution, &c. Plea, that the defendant did not become docket-bail for the stay of execution, &c., as alleged in the scire facias. Held,, that the plea was substantially a plea of non est factum, and, if sworn to, was admissible; but that if not sworn to, it should be rejected on motion. Riley et al. v. Harkness, 2 Blackf., 34.
The issue on the plea of nul tiel record should be tried by i he Court, and not by a jury. White v. Elkin, ante, 123.
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