STATE v. COLLINS

No. 56499.

322 So.2d 209 (1975)

STATE of Louisiana v. Reuben COLLINS.

Supreme Court of Louisiana.

Rehearing Denied December 5, 1975.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Carrick R. Inabnett, Monroe, for defendant-appellant.

William J. Guste, Jr., Atty. Gen., Barbara Rutledge, Asst. Atty. Gen., J. Carl Parkerson, Dist. Atty., John R. Harrison, Asst. Dist. Atty., for plaintiff-appellee.


SANDERS, Chief Justice.

The State charged the defendant, Reuben Collins, with simple escape in violation of LSA-R.S. 14:110(A), in that on or about February 15, 1973, he unlawfully and intentionally departed from the legal custody of the Sheriff of Ouachita Parish and from the Ouachita Parish Jail, where he was lawfully detained after having been sentenced to a term of nine years imprisonment in the custody of the Louisiana Department of Corrections.

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