F.A. Crank, Elizabeth City man who has been identified with prohibition officers operating in this city section for several months, was sentenced to 30 days in jail Wednesday morning when found guilty of assault. But he appealed to Superior Court.
Crank was arrested on Thanksgiving night on four counts, namely assault with a deadly weapon, reckless driving, operation of a motor car while under the influence of liquor, and for illegal possession and transportation of liquor. Crank asked for a jury trial and the case didn’t come up until Wednesday morning.
The court found Crank guilty in the assault case, and the court having sentenced Crank to 30 days in jail, the Prosecuting Attorney took a nol pros in the other cases.
The history of the case as testified to in court Wednesday is that Crank, with Otis Bland, was riding on the Newland road on Thanksgiving night. Near Berea Church the two men overtook Johnnie Brothers and Eugene Sharber, young men of the Newland township who were coming to town with two girls in an automobile, and Crank’s car gave chase. While abreast of the car of Brothers and Sharber, bullets were fired at them twice from the car of Crank. The party from Newland detoured by way of the Old Brick House road and sought refuge from Crank and Bland who chased them into the Brick House. Crank then returned to his car, but was said to have been so badly intoxicated as to have backed it into a tree.
From The Independent, Elizabeth City, N.C., Friday, Dec. 7, 1923
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