Newton County v. Doolittle

Citations

• 72 Miss. 929

Syllabus

<p>Reward. Homicide. Arrest. Code 1892, § 1387.</p> <p>Where one who inflicts a wound is arrested on a charge of assault with intent to kill, and is by the magistrate discharged, after which the wound proves mortal, and he flees, and is arrested for murder, the person making- the arrest is entitled to the reward given by §1387, code 1892, for arresting- “one who has killed another and is fleeing before arrest. ” Tta/wamba Co. v. Candler, 62 Miss., 193, distinguished.</p>