Lavina v. State
Supreme Court of Georgia
Criminal law. Jurisdiction. Before Judge Hood. Randolph Superior Court. November Adjourned Term, 1878. Reported in the opinion.
1Opinion of the Court
Jackson, Justice.
A homicide was commited in North Carolina, and the ■governor of that state issued a proclamation for the arrest of the slayer, offering a reward for his arrest. The defendant arrested, without warrant, a man in Stewart county, Georgia, and carried him to Randolph county, where he was -detained until sent for by the governor of North Carolina, when he was discharged, not being identified as the right man. He was not taken before an officer in Stewart county, but after he got to Cuthbert, the defendant took legal advice and took him before an officer and had him imprisoned. *514He…
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