Brasfield v. State

Brasfield, appellant, filed his petition in the circuit court of Monroe county praying the allowance to him of one hundred dollars statutory reward, and setting up that petitioner had, on or about June 30, 1925-, arrested and delivered to the sheriff of Monroe county one Lorenzo Jackson, who, at the time of said arrest, was hiding-out and fleeing from the officers, and was attempting to escape when he was apprehended by said petitioner. He alleged that the killing occurred May 10, 1925, about fifty days prior to the arrest. The circuit judge, after hearing the testimony, declined to allow…