One who conveys disguises, weapons and the like into a jail with the intent to aid or assist a prisoner to escape commits an offense.101

Persons aiding and abetting prisoners to escape are alike guilty with the principal;102 but it must appear that the accused knew that the prisoner was in custody of the law, and that his act done was intended to assist the prisoner to escape.103

97 4 Blackstone Com., 131.

98 Underbill's Cr. Ev., Sec. 462;

4 Blackstone Com., 129; State vs. Brown, 82 N. C, 585.

99 Garver vs. Ter., 5, Okl., 342;

Meehan vs. State, 46 N. J. L., 355; State vs. Sparks, 78 Ind., 166.

100 Trammel vs. State, 111 Ala., 77.

101 Underbill's Cr. Ev., Sec. 464.

102 Williams vs. State, 24 Tex.

App., 17; Ash vs. State, 81 Ala., 76.

103 State vs. Lawrence, 43 Kan., 128; Riley vs. State, 16 Conn., 47; Walker vs. State, 91 Ala., 32; Com. vs. Filburn, 119 Mass., 299.

Prisoners escaping when trusted by the prison authorities to go outside the prison walls, commit the offense of escape.104