STATE v. WATKINS

No. 13463.

316 N.W.2d 627 (1982)

STATE of South Dakota, Plaintiff and Appellee, v. Charles Wesley WATKINS, Defendant and Appellant.

Supreme Court of South Dakota.

Decided March 3, 1982.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mark W. Barnett, Asst. Atty. Gen., Pierre, for plaintiff and appellee; Mark V. Meierhenry, Atty. Gen., Pierre, on brief.

Donald H. Breit, Sioux Falls, for defendant and appellant.


PER CURIAM.

Defendant, Charles Wesley Watkins, appeals his conviction for escape. We affirm.

Between the middle and end of August, 1980, at 7 a. m., defendant found a threatening note on the mattress in his cell at the South Dakota penitentiary. Because of the layout of the AC detention center where he was housed, defendant believed that the note came from a guard or the penitentiary administration. Consequently, he did not bring the note to the attention...

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