State ex rel. Holmes v. Pope

This is a suit for damages on behalf of the appellant H. L. Holmes, Jr., against Jackie Pope and Sheila Riley, police officers of the City of Columbia, and the sureties on their official bonds. The appellant contends that on the morning of May 15, 1950, at about 3 o’clock he was driving his automobile on the public highway several miles west of the city of Columbia in a cautious manner and at a lawful rate of speed when the two principal defendants fired upon him without warning while in pursuit of him, and at a time when he did not know who they were or that they were officers of the law;…