19-1914. Escape of prisoner confined on civil process; liability of sheriff. If any prisoner confined on civil process shall violently escape from prison without connivance of the jailer, and such prisoner shall be recommitted to the prison whence he escaped within three months after such escape, such a recommitment shall operate to bar any recovery against the sheriff for such escape, except for the costs of any action that shall have been previously commenced against him therefor.

History: G.S. 1868, ch. 53, § 14; Oct. 31; R.S. 1923, 19-1914.