Case ID: ky-op_8/html/0547-01.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "Judge Pryor:", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

Jno. K. Tomlinson v. Daniel W. Phoenix.
    Reward for Arrest.
    Where two persons actively participate in causing the arrest of a person for whose arrest a reward is offered, the one disclosing where the offender was and having a warrant issued for his arrest, and the other acting under the warrant making the arrest, each is entitled to one-half of the reward.
    
      APPEAL FROM WASHINGTON CIRCUIT COURT,
    December 1, 1875.
    
      W. E. Selecman, for appellant.
    
   Opinion by

Judge Pryor:

Both of the parties to this controversy were instrumental in securing the arrest of the party for whose apprehension the reward was offered. The one disclosed the locality where the offender lived, and had a warrant issued for his arrest, and although this warrant was for a trivial offense, it was issued for the sole purpose of having the party arrested and placed in custody, that he might be remanded to Kentucky and tried for the greater offense. The other, acting under the warrant, and at the peril of his own life, with a knowledge of the purpose for which it was issued, made the arrest and lodged the accused in jail. They were both active participants in causing the arrest, and the one as much entitled to the reward as the other.

The judgment is, therefore, reversed and the cause remanded with directions to the court below to adjudge that the appellant and appellee are each entitled to one-half of the reward (two hundred and fifty dollars). The same will be certified to the auditor of public accounts as required by Sec. 5 of Chap. 1, General Statutes.