Tate County v. Moore
Mississippi Supreme Court
From the circuit court of Tate county. Hon. James B. Boothe, Judge. Moore, the appellee, was plaintiff, and Tate county, the appellant, was defendant in the court below. From a judgment in plaintiff’s favor defendant county appealed to the supreme court.
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From the circuit court of Tate county. Hon. James B. Boothe, Judge. Moore, the appellee, was plaintiff, and Tate county, the appellant, was defendant in the court below. From a judgment in plaintiff’s favor defendant county appealed to the supreme court. The suit was for a statutory reward under Code 1892, § 1387, which is as follows: “A person who shall arrest any one who has killed another and is fleeing or is attempting to flee before arrest, and shall deliver him up for trial, shall be entitled to the sum of one hundred dollars out of the treasury of the county in which the homicide…
1Opinion of the CourtTruly, J.
Code 1892, § 1387, contemplates the approval of both the circuit court and of the board of supervisors of an allowance of the statutory reward for the arrest of a fleeing homicide. The dissimilarity in the procedure by which such an allowance is obtained and that by which, under Code 1892, § § 641, 926, the current allowances of the courts are made, is obvious. In the latter class, as was decided by this court in Choctaw County v. Hughes, 83 Miss., 195 (35 South. Rep., 424), the allowances, when made, are “certified to the board of supervisors.” In such case the allowance by the court is…
2Cases cited1 opinion
- Choctaw County v. HughesMississippi Supreme Court · 1903
3Cited by1 opinion
- Ex parte WebbMississippi Supreme Court · 1909