Tennessee Supreme Court December 15, 1855 (State v. Winn)

Caruthers, J,,

delivered the opinion of the Court.

There seems to have been various questions made *395in this case before the Chancellor, but only one is presented to us in the argument, as decisive of it; and that is, whether a recognizance to appear in a criminal case is a lien upon the land of the cogni-zora. The question comes -up in this way: Mrs.