Decker v. State

Appellant, who is serving a life sentence in the penitentiary, was indicted, convicted and sentenced to ten years imprisonment for permitting a convict to escape, the charging part of the indictment being as follows: “The said defendant, Earl Decker, in the county, district and State aforesaid, on the 5th day of February, 1934, then and there having in custody one B. R. Ballard a convict who had been lawfully convicted for a felony and who had been lawfully sentenced to confinement in the penitentiary, did unlawfully, feloniously, wilfully and corruptly suffer, connive at and permit the…