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KING v. STATE

3 Div. 73.

247 So.2d 677 (1971)

James L. KING, alias v. STATE.

Court of Criminal Appeals of Alabama.

May 4, 1971.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

B. F. Lovelace, Brewton, for appellant.

MacDonald Gallion, Atty. Gen., and Charles H. Barnes, Asst. Atty. Gen., for the State.

CATES, Judge.

Escape by a life convict from the penitentiary: sentence, five years. Code 1940, T. 14, § 153, as amended.1

The State's proof consisted of an extant sentence and the circumstance that a door and the chain link outer fence at Holman Prison were broken on January 15, 1970. About five miles from the prison, searching officers found King in some woods. No cognizant prison official had given him permission to be absent...

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