Gould v. Chickasaw County

Citations

• 85 Miss. 123

Syllabus

<p>Rewabds. Fleeing murderer. Code 1892, § 1387. Construction. Sheriff of another state. Legal duty.</p> <p>An Arkansas sheriff, arresting in that state a person who killed another in this state and who’ was fleeing before arrest, where he merely notified, by telegraph, the sheriff of the county in which the homicide was committed of the arrest, is not entitled to the reward provided for under Code 1892, § 1387, authorizing the payment of one hundred dollars out of the county treasury for the arrest and delivery up for trial of a fleeing homicide, because:</p> <p>(а) He did not deliver up the prisoner for trial within the meaning of the statute; and</p> <p>(б) He was under legal duty to have made the arrest.</p>