Board of Supervisors v. Owen

Citations

• 100 Miss. 462
• 56 So. 525

Syllabus

<p>1. Criminal Prosecutions. Injunctions. Property rights. Fines and and Cost. Gode 1906, sections 4465, 4475.</p> <p>Equity jurisdiction cannot be invoked to enjoin criminal proceedings against defaulting road hands under the contract system provided by Code 1906, sections 4465 and 4475, upon the theory that the fines and cost which may be imposed are “property rights.”</p> <p>2. Same.</p> <p>Pines and cost which the law fixes as punishment for crime are not “property rights” within the legal meaning of that term.</p>