Gould v. Chickasaw County
Mississippi Supreme Court
Erom the circuit court of, second district, Chickasaw county. Hon. Eugene O. Sykes, Judge. Gould, the appellant, was plaintiff, and Chickasaw county, the appellee, defendant in the court below. Erom a judgment in defendant’s favor the plaintiff appealed to the supreme court.
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Erom the circuit court of, second district, Chickasaw county. Hon. Eugene O. Sykes, Judge. Gould, the appellant, was plaintiff, and Chickasaw county, the appellee, defendant in the court below. Erom a judgment in defendant’s favor the plaintiff appealed to the supreme court. In 1903 a man named Thomas Eennerson shot and killed one Thomas Page in Chickasaw county, Mississippi, and fled to Jefferson, county, Arkansas, where he was arrested by appellant, James Gould, who was then sheriff of Jefferson county, Arkansas. Gould telegraphed the sheriff of Chickasaw county, Mississippi, who sent for…
1Opinion of the CourtTruly, J.
Appellant was not entitled to recover the statutory reward for arresting a fleeing homicide. lie did not comply with the terms of § 1387, Code 1892, granting such rewards, for the reason that he did not “deliver him up for trial.”' Again, the appellant was a sheriff, an officer charged by law with the duty of making arrests, and, as such, not entitled to-any reward for performing an act which was simply in the-discharge of his official duty. Sand. & H. Dig. St. Ark., sec. 7162; Railway Co. v. Grafton, 51 Ark., 508 (11 S. W., 702; 14 Am. St. Rep., 66); Monroe County v. Bell (Miss.), 18 South.,…
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