A person who shall arrest anyone who kills another and is fleeing, or attempting to flee, before arrest, and shall deliver him up for trial, shall be entitled to the sum of one hundred dollars out of the treasury of the county in which the homicide occurred, upon the allowance of the circuit court and the board of supervisors of the county in the manner provided by law.Codes, 1857, ch. 64, art. 286; 1871, § 2786; 1880, § 3035; 1892, § 1387; 1906, § 1459; Hemingway's 1917, § 1216; 1930, § 1239; 1942, § 2482; Laws, 1910, ch. 187.
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