Keel v. State

JOANOS, Judge.

Appellant contends that the trial court erred in denying his motion to dismiss the information charging him with attempted escape because it is a non-existent crime. We have determined that appellant was properly charged in the information and that the crime of attempted escape does exist. Therefore we affirm.

The information charged that appellant, “being lawfully confined as a prisoner in a prison, jail, road camp, or other penal institution or while working on the public roads or being transported to or from a place of lawful confinement, did attempt to escape from the lawful…