State v. . Brown

The defendant is charged with escaping from the custody of an officer by whom he had been arrested on a capias issued upon an indictment for an affray committed by him and one Wood Dean and returned by the grand jury a true bill as to the defendant only. The jury on the trial found a special verdict, in which the material facts are these: The defendant was indicted at fall term, 1878, of Graham superior court for an assault and battery upon the said Wood Dean and a capias issued thereon to the sheriff of that county and was delivered to one Philip Crisp, his lawful deputy, to be executed.…