Barnes v. Moore

November 19, 1948, appellant, Barnes, — a Negro non-resident of Arkansas, — while being held by officers at Hayti, Missouri, on suspicion of having committed burglary and grand larceny in Blytheville, Arkansas, was delivered by the Missouri officers to the sheriff of Mississippi County, who, without a warrant _for his arrest, transported him to Blytheville and placed him in jail there. At the same time that Barnes was brought to Arkansas, another Arkansas officer brought along an automobile, the property of Barnes, and parked, or stored, it near the jail in which appellant was imprisoned.

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