State v. Gibson County

This case was tried in the court below upon an agreed case made up to test the liability of Gibson county to J. W. Davidson, who is the sheriff of that county, in his capacity of superintendent of its workhouse for the hoard of certain persons who were convicted of felonies and served at hard labor in the workhouse under commutation of their sentences from confinement in the penitentiary to confinement in the county’s workhouse.

The ease was heard before the circuit judge, who passed a judgment in favor of the county, reciting that the county was not liable for the board account sued on.

The…