Hurst v. State
Supreme Court of Alabama
Erom the City Court of Montgomery. Tried before the Hon. Thos. M. Arrington. Indictment against Travis Hurst and another, charging that they introduced a file into the county jail of Montgomery, with the intent to facilitate the escape of Charles J. Hughes, who was therein confined on a charge of felony.
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Erom the City Court of Montgomery. Tried before the Hon. Thos. M. Arrington. Indictment against Travis Hurst and another, charging that they introduced a file into the county jail of Montgomery, with the intent to facilitate the escape of Charles J. Hughes, who was therein confined on a charge of felony. Plea of former conviction, to which the court sustained a demurrer. cited Johnson v. State, 12 Ala. 840; Ben v. State, 22 Ala. 9; Gordon v. State, 71 Ala. 315; Simco v. State, 9 Tex. Ap. 348; Wilson v. State, 45 Tex. 81; Wright v. State, 17 Tex. 158; Foster v. Slate, 39 Ala. 229; Quitzow v.…
1Opinion of the CourtSomerville, J.
The defendant was indicted, tried and convicted for conveying into the county jail a file, with the intent to facilitate the escape of one Hurst, who was confined under a charge of misdemeanor — the offense being made punishable by fine and imprisonment in the county jail, or sentence to hard labor for the county. — Code, 1886, § 4003. At the same term of the court, the defendant was also indicted, tried and convicted for the same act of conveying into the county jail the same file, with the intent to facilitate the escape of one Hughes, a prisoner confined in the same jail on a charge of…
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