TATE, Justice.
The defendant escaped while confined at the state penitentiary at Angola. He was convicted of simple escape, La.R.S. 14:110, and sentenced to five years imprisonment at hard labor.
The single assignment of error urged by him on appeal centers upon the trial court's disallowance of his defense that his escape was made necessary by his need to get medical attention denied him by the prison authorities.
In particular, the trial court sustained...
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