In Re Woofter

On the eighth day of October, 1929, an information was filed in the Superior Court of the County of Butte, charging the prisoner with the crime of escape, in that the petitioner, on or about the twenty-seventh day of March, 1929, in the county of Butte, who had theretofore been committed to the state prison at San Quentin, for a term less than life, did escape while engaged in road work at Camp 17, in Butte County, in violation of section 106 of the Penal Code. After trial the petitioner was on the sixteenth day of October, 1929, found guilty and sentenced to the state prison at Folsom.

Upon…