Gray v. Coahoma County

Citations

• 72 Miss. 303

Syllabus

<p>Medical Aid to Pbisoneb. I/ltibiUtiy of county. Code 1893, § 4139. > Section 4139, code 1893, which provides that the sheriff, with the concurrence of the circuit clerk or a justice of the peace, may procure medical aid for a prisoner confined in jail, the cost to be paid by the county if the prisoner be unable to pay, has no application to a case where a prisoner, shot by a deputy sheriff while attempting to escape, is carried to his mother’s house, and there treated by a physician procured by the sheriff at the suggestion of the circuit judge.</p>