Board of Supervisors v. Wells

Citations

• 67 Miss. 151

Syllabus

<p>Reward. Fugitive slayer. Injury in one county — death in another. Code 1880, § 3035.</p> <p>In case of injury in one county resulting in death in another, the reward given by § 3035 of the code to the captor of the slayer who flees arrest is payable by the county in which the cause of death arose, and not by the county where the death occurs, although, under § 2996, the offender may in such case he tried in either county. •</p>