Henson v. State

Quillian, Judge.

During the early morning hours of September 30, 1974, personnel of the Cherokee County Sheriffs office were at a roadblock looking for two prisoners who had escaped from the county jail a few hours earlier. They heard a motor vehicle start up in the area of a nearby lumber yard and started in pursuit. The vehicle failed to stop when they turned on their "blue lights.” The defendants were seen in the vehicle by a deputy sheriff when he drove alongside, and by another deputy sheriff from behind the vehicle. Because it refused to stop they "shot out the tires.” When the vehicle…