Ex Parte Fairley

This is an appeal prosecuted by appellants from a judgment of the circuit court of Greene county denying their petition for the statutory-reward of one hundred dollars for the apprehension, arrest, and delivery up to the sheriff of that county for trial, of Ella McLeod, claimed by them to have been a fleeing homicide at the time. Appellants claim the reward under authority of section 1239 of the Code of 1930, which is in this language: “A person who shall arrest any one who kills another and is fleeing, or attempting to flee, before arrest, and shall deliver him up for trial, shall be…