This section is from the book "Popular Law Library Vol10 Criminal Law, Criminal Procedure, Wills, Administration", by Albert H. Putney. Also available from Amazon: Popular Law-Dictionary.
Rescue is the forcibly and knowingly freeing another from an arrest or imprisonment; and it is generally the same offense in the stranger so rescuing as it would have been in a gaoler to have voluntarily permitted an escape.96
90 Britten vs. Chegary, 20 N. J. L., 625.
91 Com. vs. Pease, 16 Mass., 91;
Ward vs. Allen, 2 Met. (Mass.), 53. 92 State vs. Ash, 33 Or., 86. 93 McDaniel Vs. State, 27 Ga., 197.
94 6 Am. & Eng. Ency. Law, 401
(2nd Ed.). 95 Smith vs. Crego, 7N.Y Sup., 86;
Treadwell vs. Torbert, 122 Ala., 297. 96 4 Blackstone Com., 131; 2
McClain Cr. Law, Sec. 930.
A rescue therefore of one apprehended for felony, is felony; for treason, is treason; and for a misdemeanor, a misdemeanor also.97
 
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