Talbot County v. Mansfield
Supreme Court of Georgia
Complaint. Before Judge Butt. Talbot superior court. September 13,1901. A prisoner charged with crime in Talbot county was sent to the jail of Muscogee county for safe-keeping. While there confined his condition demanded the attention of a physician, and as such the plaintiff (who was the physician employed by Muscogee county) visited him a number of times, at the request of the jailer.
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Complaint. Before Judge Butt. Talbot superior court. September 13,1901. A prisoner charged with crime in Talbot county was sent to the jail of Muscogee county for safe-keeping. While there confined his condition demanded the attention of a physician, and as such the plaintiff (who was the physician employed by Muscogee county) visited him a number of times, at the request of the jailer. For the services thus rendered payment was demanded of Talbot county by the plaintiff, and was refused. Suit was brought; and on the trial, after the introduction of evidence for the plaintiff, the defendant…
1Opinion of the CourtTittle, J.
1. Under the Penal Code, § 920, a person charged with crime may, under certain circumstances, be sent or committed to the jail of a county other than that in which the crime was committed, for safe-keeping. When this has been done, the person so committed is in the full care and custody of the county authorities which by statute have charge of the jail in which such person is confined, so long as he remains in such jail.
■2. An obligation is imposed by law on the county where the crime was committed, and from which such person was sent, to pay to the county in the jail of which he was confined…
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