Willeford, John W.

UNITED STATES OF AMERICA,

STATE OF ILLINOIS,

WILLIAMSON COUNTY,

At a regular term of the County Court of said County of Williamson begun and holden at the Court House in Marion, in said County on Monday the 10th day of March in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and seventy-nine being the second Monday of said month. To wit: On Monday the 1oth day of March A. D. 1879.

No. 25		PRESENT, Hon. George W. Young Judge,
The People of the State of Illinois		W. H. Eubanks Clerk,
vs	Indictment for	J. H. Duncan Sheriff,
John W. Willeford	Gaming	And J. W. Hartwell State's Attorney.
		Attest, W. H. Eubanks Clerk

WHEREAS, at the April Term, A. D. 1878, of the Circuit Court of Williamson County, in the State of Illinois, an Indictment for Gaming against John W. Willeford was by the Grand Jury of said county duly returned into Open Court, on which indictment the bail was afterward fixed by said court at the sum of one Hundred; and it was then and there also ordered by the Court that said indictment be certified to the County Court of said county, for process and trial, which on towit the 7th day of April A.D. 1878 was done accordingly, whereby the said indictment then and there became a matter of record in the county court. AND WHEREAS, afterward, in pursuance of said indictment, before J. H. Duncan Sheriff of Williamson County , to wit: On the 12 day of December 1878, the said John W. Willeford made his recognizance in the sum of (blank) for his appearance at the County Court of said County, on the first day of March Term, 1879, thereof, to answer to said Indictment, which recognizance was then and there approved and certified by said Sheriff, and was afterward filed in said County Court, whereby it became a matter of record therein;
AND WHEREAS, the day is now come when by said recognizance the said John W. Willeford is bound to appear: Now come the People, by J. W. Hartwell, the State's Attorney, and the said Defendant, being three times solemnly called, comes not, nor anyone for him, but makes default; and D. H. Pritchett, W. B. Trammell, Wesley Trammell, and A. J. Caldwell securities for the said John W. Willeford in said recognizance being (blank) also now three times solemnly called that they produce the body of the said Defendant , and they also failing therein, thereupon IT IS ORDERED BY THE COURT that the default of the said Defendant and of his security be entered of record, and that a scire facias issue herein against said John W. Willeford, D. H. Pritchett, W. B. Trammell, Wesley Trammell, and A. J. Caldwell returnable to the next term of this Court, requiring the said defendant and his securities then and there to appear and show cause why the People should not have judgment and execution upon their said recognizance, according to the form, force and effect thereof. Ordered also that a capias issue for the body of said Defendant , returnable to the next term of this Court.