Harrison County v. Hurst

Citations

• 110 Miss. 716
• 70 So. 889

Syllabus

<p>1. Rewards. Sufficiency of services. Arrest and detention in another state. Construction of statute.</p> <p>In an action by plaintiff against a county for the statutory reward of one hundred dollars for arresting a fleeing homicide, where plaintiff had initiated the search in the nighttime and was on his way to arrest the fleeing homicide some nine miles from the scene of killing and did make the arrest and the prisoner was afterward convicted, the fact that he was joined in the search' by an officer to whom he turned over the prisoner after he had arrested him and who assisted him in handcuffing the prisoner, did not prevent plaintiff from being entitled to the reward.</p> <p>2. Rewards. Performance of service. Arrest in another state.</p> <p>When plaintiff arrested a fleeing homicide in another state and notified the sheriff of the county in Mississippi where the homicide occurred of such arrest, and held the prisoner until the sheriff arrived, when he turned the prisoner over to him and the sheriff brought him back for trial, the fact that he so delivered the prisoner and did not incur any expense in returning him to the state did not destroy his right to the statutory penalty for arresting a fleeing homicide.</p> <p>3. Reward. Construction of statute.</p> <p>The statute providing for a reward for arresting a fleeing homicide' must be given a liberal construction in aid of parties making; such arrest.</p>