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120 Ala. 390

Marshall v. State

Supreme Court of Alabama

Decided November 15, 1898

Supreme Court of Alabama · decided 1898-11-15

Tried before the Hon. E. B. Wilkerson. The appellant was tried and convicted under the following-indictment: “The grand jury of said county charge that before the finding of this indictment Sam Marshal did intentionally assist Gus Raimer, a prisoner lawfully confined in the county jail of Pike county, on a charge of a misdemeanor, to escape therefrom by drilling or prizing out a hole through the walls of said jail, against the peace and dignity of the State of Alabama.” To…

Cited by 2 later decisions — most recently August 1974

2 state decisions

Relies on Grattan v. State · Wilson v. State · Hurst v. State

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Decided 1898-11-15

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HARALSON, J.

¶1The statutory offenses created by sections 4711 and 4712 of the Code, are different, — the one a felony and the other a misdemeanor; and' from the terms of the two sections it is obvious, that an indictment under the first would necessarily contain averments not required in the latter. What averments are necessary in an indictment under 4711, was very fully considered in Hurst v. The State, 79 Ala. 55.

¶2The indictment in this case was found under said section 4712, describing the offense created thereunder, in the language of the statute, or words conveying the same meaning, and alleges the fact in the doing of Which the offense consists.—Code, § § 4896, 4898; Grattan v. The State, 71 Ala. 344; Wilson v. The State, 61 Ala. 151.

¶3The ground of demurrer taken to the indictment, — that it “fails to aver that the act of drilling or prizing out a *392hole through the walls of the jail was done with the intent to facilitate the escape of G-us Rainier from said jail,” — is not well taken, but if applicable in any case, it would be to an indictment under section 4711. The demurrer was properly overruled,

¶4Affirmed.

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