State Ex Rel. Wilkins v. Hallock

By the Court,

Belknap, J.:

The statute entitled “ An act to authorize and require the payment of rewards in certain cases,” (Gen. Stat. 1918), requires the governor of the state to offer a standing reward of two hundred and fifty dollars for the arrest of each person engaged in robbery upon the highway. The reward is payable upon the conviction of the person or persons arrested. During the year 1885, the relator arrested two persons in the act of committing a robbery upon the highway. They were convicted of the offense within the same year. In the year 1887 he presented his claim for the sum of…