114 Ga. 583 | Ga. | 1902
The view which we take of the law applicable to the facts of this case causes a reversal of the judgment rendered in the court below. It appears that the solicitor-general of the Oconee circuit, John F. DeLacy, Esq., and the clerk and the sheriff of Pulaski county, Lancaster and Roberts, instituted an action against Pulaski county to recover the value of the services of certain convicts who had been tried and convicted' in the superior court of that county for different offenses of the grade of misdemeanor, and sentenced to serve different terms in the chain-gang, and who had served their sentences on a chain-gang organized and maintained by the authorities of that county. The theory of the plaintiffs was, that, inasmuch as the county had received the benefit of .the labor of such convicts, the value of such labor should be applied to the cost bills of said officers, they having rendered services in the trial of these convicts in the superior court. At the trial of the-case an amendment to the petition was allowed which sought to
the judgment is
Reversed.