State v. Hendrix

EAGER, Judge.

Defendant and one Martin Jones were charged by amended information with damaging and injuring a building in the state penitentiary while convicts therein, and on or about May 7, 1955, by sawing and breaking the iron bars on an outer window. The statute then applicable was § 217.700 (all statutory references are to RSMo 1949 and V.A.M.S. unless otherwise stated) ; it has since been substantially re-enacted as § 216.460, effective July 14, 1955 (see 1957 Cum.Supp.). Defendant Charles D. Hendrix was tried alone, convicted, and sentenced to three years’ confinement, that period to…