State v. Woods

The admitted facts in this case are that the defendants-appellants were on December 12, 1937, and for some time prior thereto, inmates of the South Carolina Penitentiary-serving sentences imposed by Courts having jurisdiction; that the appellants entered into a conspiracy to escape from the Penitentiary, the plan or scheme being to seize Captain of the Guards, J. Olin Sanders, in his office, force him to call for an automobile and issue instructions that the gates of the prison be opened with no shots fired as appellants rode from the confines thereof. As a guarantee of this, Captain Sanders…