Judgment affirmed.
Viewed in the light most favorable to the prosecution, the evidence adduced at trial, though entirely circumstantial, clearly proved the defendant's guilt beyond a reasonable doubt. The proof from which the jury inferred the fact of the defendant's escape from detention — cut jail bars, the defendant's coincident disappearance from the Suffolk County Correctional Facility, and his apprehension in a nearby town some three days later —...
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