Art. 7.17. LIMITATION AND PROCEDURE.  Suits upon such bonds shall be commenced within two years from the breach of the same, and not thereafter, and shall be governed by the same rules as civil actions, except that the sureties may be sued without joining the principal.  To entitle the State to recover, it shall only be necessary to prove that the accused violated any condition of said bond.  The full amount of such bond may be recovered of the accused and the sureties.
Acts 1965, 59th Leg., vol. 2, p. 317, ch. 722.