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LOCKHART v. STATE

75974.

186 Ga. App. 6 (1988)

366 S.E.2d 371

LOCKHART v. THE STATE.

Court of Appeals of Georgia.

Decided February 22, 1988.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

John V. Harper, for appellant.

John R. Parks, District Attorney, Barbara Becraft, Assistant District Attorney, for appellee.

DEEN, Presiding Judge.

The appellant, Sammie Lockhart, was tried and convicted of aggravated assault on a police officer, stemming from his escape from the Sumter County Sheriff's Department on May 15, 1986. (He pleaded guilty to a charge of escape.) While awaiting being processed on a shoplifting charge, Lockhart was shackled to a couch with leg irons. When the jailer went back to the holding cells to check on another prisoner, Lockhart pried off the leg cuff with...

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