The facts are less theatrical but much more dramatic.

Sevier was not arraigned at all, for no court was sitting in Morgantown at the time.

* The sheriff to whom he was delivered did not need to look twice at him to know him for a daring man.

He had served with him at King's Mountain.

He struck off his handcuffs and set him at liberty at once.
Perhaps he also notified General Charles McDowell at his home in Quaker Meadows of the presence of a distinguished guest in Burke County, for McDowell and his brother Joseph, another officer of militia, quickly appeared and went on Sevier's bond.