Harrison County v. McCaleb

Citations

• 110 Miss. 733
• 70 So. 899

Syllabus

<p>¡Statutory Rewards. Fleeing homicide.</p> <p>Where a negro employee in a wholesale grocery company got into a controversy with and cut another negro to death and the other negro employees surrounded him and demanded that he give up his knife and the slayer hacked to an entrance and refused this demand, when claimant, one of the white bosses, appeared and ordered the slayer to give up his knife and go to a dressing room, take off his working clothes and stay there until an officer came, all of which the slayer did, in such case claimant was not entitled to the statutory reward for arresting a fleeing homicide.</p>