1941 private laws – Ch.2 Sec.2

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CHAPTER 2 AN ACT FOR THE RELIEF OF R. C. JENNINGS, DEPUTY SHERIFF FOR WILKES COUNTY, NORTH CAROLINA. Whereas, on the twenty-second day of September, one thousand nine hundred and thirty-nine, a report was received at the Sheriffs office of Wilkes County that a woman had been attacked in Wilkes County on the public road leading from Wilkesboro to Hiddenite, North Carolina, and within five miles of the Court House, and that the man had threatened to shoot the woman, but she traveling in an automobile was able to escape; and Whereas, the said R. C. Jennings, Deputy Sheriff, went to the scene of the trouble and locating the guilty party attempted to make the arrest in the usual way; and whereas, the guilty party was an insane man, and before the said R. C. Jennings discovered this fact he was, without warning, shot by the guilty party with a shotgun, at close range, the load taking effect in his right side causing a severe wound in the muscles of his arm and side, six or seven shots penetrating his lungs, all of which required his re- maining in the hospital with special nurses for two weeks, and under the care of physicians for eight weeks, and was thereby incapacitated to perform any work or service for more than two months, all of which was at a cost to him of not less than three hundred dollars ($300.00) for which he should receive compensa- tion; and Whereas, Wilkes County was excepted from Chapter two hun- dred and seventy-seven, Public Laws of North Carolina, Regular Session one thousand nine hundred and thirty-nine, which was for the relief of deputy sheriffs, leaving him with no redress or compensation for his said injury: Now, therefore, The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact: