CLEMENS, Senior Judge.
On a wintry night late in 1977 defendant Cornelius Walker and nine other prisoners escaped from jail; they had cut a window bar and climbed a fence. They picked a bad night; it had snowed. Officers tracked one set of footprints; the path led to defendant, hiding in a filling station toilet.
A jury found defendant guilty of escaping jail. Sect. 557.390 RSMo. 1969. It fixed punishment at two years in prison. Defendant appeals from the...
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