Massie v. Commonwealth

Emmet Massie was convicted under an indictment charging him with conveying into the jail of Amherst county a hack saw with the intent to facilitate the escape of James P. McCarthy and James Brown, who were confined therein on a charge of felony, and sentenced to the penitentiary for one year.

On the night of August 24, 1923, between nine and ten o’clock, McCarthy and Brown and three other prisoners, charged with misdemeanors, made their escape from the Amherst jail. McCarthy and Brown were confined in a steel cell and made their escape by sawing the steel bars of the cell. The jailer arrived…