Gordon County Commissioners v. Harris

Simmons, Justice.

The Board of Commissioners of Gordon county brought a rule against J. W. Harris, solicitor-general, representing that said Harris, as solicitor-general, had collected $700,. arising from fines and forfeitures in criminal prosecutions in said court; that they had paid from time to time since the last term of the court, for dieting and bringing prisoners into court,-dollars, and had filed an itemized account thereof with the clerk of said court; that said prisoners had all been convicted or acquitted, and that the prisoners who were convicted were insolvent and unable to pay…