HILL, Circuit Judge.
Appellants were tried and convicted by a jury of escape from custody, 18 U.S.C. § 751, and have appealed. The pivotal issue is whether or not they were in "custody" within the meaning of that term under the statute.
The facts are not in dispute. Appellants were prisoners in the federal reformatory at El Reno, Oklahoma. On March 20, 1965, they were taken, together with seventeen other inmates, to Oklahoma City for participation in...
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