Delahunt

—r- The respondent County of Los Angeles instituted an action upon a bail bond furnished by one James E. Merritt and signed by the defendants Delahunt and Eggleston. Mrs. Eggleston’s demurrer to the complaint having been overruled, she was given ten days within which to answer, but failed to do so, whereupon her default was entered. Judgment was accordingly rendered, entered and docketed against the last-named defendant for the amount specified in the undertaking, with interest and costs, and she appeals therefrom.

The complaint alleged that on August 29, 1919, complaint was filed in the justice’s court, charging Merritt, with having committed lewd and lascivious acts, a felony; that after a hearing he was held to answer in the Superior Court and. committed to the custody of the sheriff until he should give hail in the sum of five hundred dollars. It appears that on September 2, 1919, such bond was signed by the defendants, that it was filed on September 8, 1919, and it is alleged further that “the said James E. Merritt was under and solely by virtue of the terms of said bail bond, released from the custody of the sheriff of Los Angeles county. ’ ’ The bond is attached to the…