STATE v. PERKINS


277 A.2d 501 (1971)

STATE of Maine v. Roger PERKINS.

Supreme Judicial Court of Maine.

May 19, 1971.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

F. Frederick Romanow, County Atty., Belfast, for plaintiff.

John H. Fallon, Searsport, for defendant.

Before DUFRESNE, C. J., and WEBBER, WEATHERBEE, POMEROY, and WERNICK, JJ.


PER CURIAM.

This indigent defendant was convicted by a jury of the offense of escape from jail and was sentenced to serve a term in the Maine State Prison. On defendant's appeal, his court-appointed attorney has presented us with two issues.

First, defendant contends that as he had been found not guilty of the offense of breaking, entering and larceny, the charge on which he had been confined to jail at the time of the escape, he could not later have been...

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