Dougherty County v. Kemp & Hood

Bleckley, Judge.

The sheriff and his deputy were owners of a livery stable. The superior court being in session, a witness for the state in *253a criminal case on trial or about to be tried, was wanted. The presiding judge ordered the sheriff to furnish a horse'and-buggy, and send one of the bailiffs attending upon the court out some eighteen miles in the country, and bring in the witness at once. The sheriff objected on account of the heat of the weather, saying that it was dangerous to a horse to be driven at that time of day, and proposed to send at night, and have the witness present by the…