Petition of Aultman

This appeal is from an order of the circuit court which disallowed a claim of the petitioner, B. B. Aultman, for the sum of $100 as a reward provided for under Section 2482, Code of 1942, for the arrest and delivering up for trial of a fleeing homicide.

The petitioner, at the time of making such arrest, was a resident citizen of the City of Columbia, in Marion County, and a member of the Police Force thereof, and was being paid a fixed salary by the City for his services tinder such employment. The homicide occurred within the corporate limits of the City and the arrest was made therein, and…