If any person shall conspire to break or enter any jail or other place of confinement of prisoners charged with crime or under sentence, for the purpose of killing or otherwise injuring any prisoner confined therein; or if any person shall engage in breaking or entering any such jail or other place of confinement of such prisoners with intent to kill or injure any prisoner, he shall be punished as a Class F felon.
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 14-221
Breaking or entering jails with intent to injure prisoners
Applied in 3 court decisions — leading case 113 N.C. App. 347 - State v. Eastman (1994)
Most recently applied in Silva v. Garland (February 2022)
1893, c. 461, s. 1; Rev., s. 3698; C.S., s. 4376; 1979, c. 760, s. 5; 1979, 2nd Sess., c. 1316, s. 47; 1981, c. 63, s. 1, c. 179, s. 14; 1993, c. 539, s. 1210; 1994, Ex
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