Arthur v. Green
Court of Appeals of Kentucky
CASE 20 — PETITION ORDINARY — APPEAL PROM THE GRAYSON CIRCUIT COURT. cited Rev. Statutes, chap. 93, art. 6 ; Civil Code, sec. 24.
1Opinion of the CourtChief Justice Simpson
This action was brought by the jailer of Hardin county against Willis Green, for his fees as jailer, for keeping a slave of the defendant that had been committed to his custody, as a runaway, by the county judge of that county.
The only question to be decided is, has a county judge the power to determine whether a slave that has been arrested is a runaway, and commit him to jail as such, or does this power belong exclusively to justices of the peace ?
The statute in relation to runaways provides, that every slave arrested as a runaway shall be taken before a justice of the peace, who, if there…
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