87 Miss. 606
Decided November 15, 1905
Mississippi Supreme Court · decided 1905-11-15
From the circuit court of Warren county. TIon. Oliver W. Oatchinss, Judge. Lanier, the appellee, petitioned the circuit court for an allowance, under Code 1892, § 1387, stating that he had arrested and delivered up for trial a fleeing homicide. The court below granted the prayer of the petition (it was an ex parte one), and made an allowance of one hundred dollars, as prayed for by petitioner. From the judgment of allowance Warren county appealed to the supreme court.
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Decided 1905-11-15
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¶1delivered the opinion of the court.
¶2This is an ex parte petition of Lanier to the circuit court, under Code 1892, § 1387, for one hundred dollars reward for arresting a person who had killed another and was fleeing from arrest. The circuit court allowed it, and the county, which had never been made a party, appeals. We are without jurisdiction. Tate County v. Moore, ante, 245 (s.c., 39 South. Rep., 781).
¶3Appeal dismissed.