Earle v. Greenville County

StukES, Justice.

This action was brought against the named counties by complaint in which it was alleged that plaintiff's intestate was arrested by officers of Pickens County on Feb. 16, 1947, in connection with the stabbing and robbing of one Thomas W. Brown and incarcerated in the county jail; a large number of persons gathered there in the early morning hours of Feb. 17th and, acting upon the suspicion that plaintiff’s intestate was guilty of the crime, with force of arms broke into and entered the jail and took him therefrom and from the custody of the law enforcement officers of that…