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STATE v. PETERS

No. 14453.

713 S.W.2d 856 (1986)

STATE of Missouri, Plaintiff-Respondent, v. John Henry PETERS, Defendant-Appellant.

Missouri Court of Appeals, Southern District, Division One.

July 23, 1986.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Victor W. Head, Garrett & Woods, Monett, for defendant-appellant.

William L. Webster, Atty. Gen., Carrie Francke, John M. Morris, Asst. Attys. Gen., Jefferson City, for plaintiff-respondent.

FLANIGAN, Judge.

A jury found defendant guilty of escape from confinement, § 575.210,1 and he was sentenced, as a persistent offender, to a term of eight years. Defendant appeals.

On March 25, 1984, while being held as a prisoner in the Barry County Jail, defendant escaped from the jail and remained at large until December 1984, when he was arrested in New Mexico. The escape was effected because the jailer failed to lock an...

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