Delegal v. State

Simmons* C. J.

The record discloses that on August 28,1899, there was an alleged riot in the town of Darien, Georgia. On the next day the mayor of Darien swore in Hopkins and Townsend for the purpose of making the arrest of one of the rioters. They subsequently saw the sheriff of the cdunty, informed him what the mayor had done, and told him that they intended to arrest John Delegal. The sheriff told them to “go ahead.” They left Darien sometime on the afternoon of the 24th, stopped for the night at Hopkins’s house, and at two o’clock in the morning started for the residence of Delegal,which…