PEOPLE v. SOWERS

Docket No. 3244.

204 Cal.App.2d 640 (1962)

22 Cal. Rptr. 401

THE PEOPLE, Plaintiff and Respondent, v. JAMES C. SOWERS, Defendant and Appellant.

Court of Appeals of California, Third District.

June 15, 1962.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

James D. Walsh, under appointment by the District Court of Appeal, for Defendant and Appellant.

Stanley Mosk, Attorney General, Doris H. Maier, Assistant Attorney General, and C. Michael Gianola, Deputy Attorney General, for Plaintiff and Respondent.


PEEK, P.J.

Defendant appeals from a judgment of conviction entered pursuant to a jury verdict finding him guilty of a violation of section 4531 of the Penal Code (escape), and from the order of the trial court denying his motion for a new trial.

The record shows that defendant, while an inmate at Folsom State Prison, serving a term for conviction of forgery, escaped from an honor camp operated by the prison in Placer County. Subsequently, he was arrested in...

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