Ex parte Davis

Petition was filed by Davis for tbe statutory reward authorized by Code 1942, Section 2482, for arresting and delivering up for trial a fleeing homicide. An agreed statement of facts furnishes the background for our decision. It is as follows: “Woodrow Wilson, colored, a resident of Clay County, Mississippi, killed his wife in the Fourth District of Monroe County on the place of June Ballard at about 1:00 o ’clock P. M. on the-day of-, 1948. Woodrow Wilson left the scene of the killing and travelled on foot across country about six miles to the home of Elbert Davis and his wife, also in the…