Strong v. State ex rel. Barrett

The relator, Barrett, was convicted in the criminal court of Shelby county and sentenced to servé a term of eleven months and twenty-nine days' in the county workhouse, and to pay the costs of the prosecution.. After serving a portion of the sentence period he escaped; hut. he was recaptured and again placed in the workhouse. After then completing the original term of service, he tendered to the proper official the amount of the costs of his prosecution, $114, which was refused on the ground that the county had expended the further sum of $125 in recapturing him, which sum was denianded,…