Opinion
No. 20534.
Delivered December 20, 1939. Rehearing Denied February 21, 1940.
Pleading — Bail Bond — Substitution.
Merely because two appearance bonds were in the same amount, and were executed by the same parties, would not render their citations interchangeable, in suits for the forfeiture of the bonds by means of a trial amendment, since each bond was a separate undertaking and possibly susceptible to separate defenses, and the office of a trial amendment cannot be utilized for the purpose of correcting a fatal variance between the allegation and the proof.
Appeal from the District Court of Runnels County. Hon. O. L. Parish, Judge.
Suit by the State against defendant and others to forfeit a bail bond. From an adverse judgment, the defendants appeal. Judgment reversed, and cause remanded.
The opinion states the case.
Wm. E. Davenport, of San Angelo, for appellants.
Lloyd W. Davidson, State's Attorney, of Austin, for the State.
This case is a companion case to our No. 20533, S. M. Hedges, et al v. State, (page 453 of this volume) and presents itself in the same condition and under the same circumstances as that case.
Merely because the two bonds are in the same amount, and executed by the same parties, will not render their citations interchangeable so that each citation can be moved from one case over into the other by means of a trial amendment. Each bond is a separate undertaking, and possibly susceptible to separate defenses, and the office of a trial amendment can not be utilized for the purpose of correcting a fatal variance between the allegation and the proof.
The judgment of the trial court is reversed and the cause remanded.
ON STATE'S MOTION FOR REHEARING.
After carefully re-examining the record in the light of the State's motion for rehearing we are constrained to adhere to the conclusion expressed in the original opinion.
The motion for rehearing is overruled.
The foregoing opinion of the Commission of Appeals has been examined by the Judges of the Court of Criminal Appeals and approved by the Court.