Gray v. Coahoma County
Gray v. Coahoma County
Opinion of the Court
delivered the opinion of the court.
Section 4139, code 1892, has no application to the case disclosed in the record before us. The man, James, to whom the sheriff called the appellant professionally as a surgeon, was not, at the time, a prisoner confined in the jail of the county.' He was not then actually in the custody of the sheriff. He had been causelessly shot down by a deputy of the sheriff, and had been carried to and left in his mother’s house, some miles away from the jail, and there he remained during the entire period of time of his treatment by the appellant.
It does not even appear that the wounded man was unable to procure for himself needed surgical attention. He was a laborer, and without property, but that is the actual condition of thousands of sturdy, self-helping citizens of this state.
Affirmed.
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- J. W. Gray, Jr. v. Coahoma County
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- Medical Aid to Pbisoneb. I/ltibiUtiy of county. Code 1893, § 4139. > Section 4139, code 1893, which provides that the sheriff, with the concurrence of the circuit clerk or a justice of the peace, may procure medical aid for a prisoner confined in jail, the cost to be paid by the county if the prisoner be unable to pay, has no application to a case where a prisoner, shot by a deputy sheriff while attempting to escape, is carried to his mother’s house, and there treated by a physician procured by the sheriff at the suggestion of the circuit judge.