State v. Dinkins
Mississippi Supreme Court
]?R,om tbe circuit court, first district, of Hinds county. Hon. Robert Powe.lt., Judge. Dinkins, tbe appellee, was tbe plaintiff in tbe court below; the state, tbe appellant, was defendant there. From a judgment in plaintiff’s favor tbe state appealed to tbe supreme court. Tbe facts are stated in tbe opinion of tbe court.
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]?R,om tbe circuit court, first district, of Hinds county. Hon. Robert Powe.lt., Judge. Dinkins, tbe appellee, was tbe plaintiff in tbe court below; the state, tbe appellant, was defendant there. From a judgment in plaintiff’s favor tbe state appealed to tbe supreme court. Tbe facts are stated in tbe opinion of tbe court. Tbe claims upon which tbe state suffers itself to be sued are those which go to tbe auditor of public accounts in tbe usual course of administration of tbe state’s affairs. Appellee’s claim-is not one of that class. By express directions o'f tbe. statute tbe claim sued on…
1Opinion of the CourtTerral, J.
On the 21st day of May, 1894, the governor of the state, by proclamation, offered a reward of $500 for the arrest of J. A. C. Shrader, Jr., who had prior thereto shot and killed K. N. Parish, in Sharkey county, and for the delivery of said Shrader to the sheriff of said county; said reward was payable one-half on the delivery of said Shrader to the sheriff of said county, and one-half upon his conviction. Suit is here brought for the one-half of the said reward, which was to be paid upon the conviction of Shrader. The plaintiff in his declaration alleges that he arrested Shrader and delivered…
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