Hurst v. State
Supreme Court of Alabama
From the Circuit Court of Calhoun. Tried before the Hon. James Aiken. The indictment in this ease contained six counts. The first count charged, that the defendants, John Hurst and Thomas A. Hill, “did assist one Gid J. Entriker, who was lawfully confined in the county jail of Calhoun county, under a charge of murder, to escape from said jail.”
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From the Circuit Court of Calhoun. Tried before the Hon. James Aiken. The indictment in this ease contained six counts. The first count charged, that the defendants, John Hurst and Thomas A. Hill, “did assist one Gid J. Entriker, who was lawfully confined in the county jail of Calhoun county, under a charge of murder, to escape from said jail.” The fourth count charged, that said defendants, “with intent to facilitate the escape, from the jail of Calhoun county, of one Gid J. Entriker, who was lawfully confined,” &e., “ did break or blow a hole in the wall of said jail, by placing dynamite in…
1Opinion of the CourtStone, C. J.
The indictment in this case ’ was framed under section 4130 of the Code of 1876, which reads as follows : “ Any person who conveys into the county jail, or into any other lawful place of confinement, any disguise, instrument, arms, or other thing useful to aid any prisoner to escape, with the intent to facilitate the escape of any prisoner therein lawfully confined under a charge or conviction of felony, or who, by any other act, or in any other way, assists such prisoner to escape, whether such escape be attempted or effected or not, must, on conviction, be imprisoned in the penitentiary, or…
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