State v. Brown

The warrant which is the basis of this prosecution charges or attempts to charge, the offense contained in G.S. 14-224:

“Failing to aid police officers. — If any person, after having been lawfully commanded to aid an offiicer in arresting any person, or in retaking any person who has escaped from legal custody, or in executing any legal process, wilfully neglects or refuses to aid such officer, he shall be guilty of a misdemeanor.”

The foregoing statute has been in effect since 1889. This Court, in the opinion by Clark, C. J., in State v. Ditmore, 177 N.C. 592, 99 S.E. 368, states: “It is his…