Thomas v. County of St. Louis

The only question involved in this case is the construction of that clause of the statute regulating fees, which provides that a sheriff shall be allowed the sum of one dollar ££for committing any person to jail.”

*548The appellant, being county marshal of St. Louis county, and as such entitled to the same fees as are allowed to sheriffs in like cases, contends that when any person is arrested by him under a capias. and in default of bail is imprisoned by him in the county jail, to await examination, by the proper magistrate, he thereby becomes entitled not only to the fees allowed for-serving and…