Binford v. Harris County

Grounding his claim on article 1143 of our Code of Criminal Procedure, Binford, as sheriff thereof, sued Harris county for reimbursement for an aggregate of $1,308.75 paid out by him in December, 1923, and January, 1924, for guards and matrons necessarily employed in the safe-keeping of prisoners confined in the jail of the county, alleging that allowance therefor had been in due time and manner made by the commissioners’ court, but that the auditor for the county had refused to approve them because of an opinion of the Attorney General of the state to the effect that this article 1143 had…