ELLIS v. COMMONWEALTH


430 S.W.2d 335 (1968)

Raymond C. ELLIS, Appellant, v. COMMONWEALTH of Kentucky, Appellee.

Court of Appeals of Kentucky.

June 28, 1968.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Donald S. Muir, Paducah, for appellant.

John B. Breckinridge, Atty. Gen., James H. Barr, Asst. Atty. Gen., Frankfort, for appellee.


EDWARD P. HILL, Judge.

On April 6, 1967, while imprisoned in the McCracken County jail at Paducah, Kentucky, on a charge of armed robbery, appellant Raymond C. Ellis and two or more other prisoners, in an attempt to escape jail, attacked Ersel King, a deputy jailor, resulting in the serious cutting and wounding of King. Upon appellant's trial in Livingston Circuit Court (where it was transferred from McCracken Circuit Court...

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