Bowlin v. Archer

Opinion of the Court by

Judge Miller

Reversing.

*541Thomas Bowlin was the Marshal of the town of Jellico, Kentucky, which adjoins the boundary line between Kentucky and Tennessee. Jellico, Ky., and Jellico, Tenn., are thus separated only by a line, and are, in fact, one town, although two, geographically.

On August 20, 1911, while Bowlin was attempting to arrest one Lewis Archer on a capias pro fine, Archer resisted arrest and dragged Bowlin across the Tennessee line and about twenty feet into the State of Tennessee. One of the witnesses tells what happened after the arrest, as follows:

“Archer was so…