Archer v. Johnson

As early as the year 1855 Justice Lumpkin in the case of Boyd v. State, 17 Ga. 194 (8) laid the cornerstone of the doctrine that it was to the public interest that law-enforcement officers while in the discharge of their duty be given sufficient latitude of action and ample protection. In a pretty phrase he denominates them “the ministers of justice.” In the. body of the opinion at page 204 it is said: “Ministers of justice,' while in the execution of their offices, are under the peculiar protection of the law—a protection founded in wisdom and in every principle of political equity; for…