Com. v. Adams
Superior Court of Pennsylvania
Appeal, No. 14, March T., 1897, by defendant, from judgment and sentence of Q. S., Lebanon County, June Sess., 1896, No. 54, on plea of guilty. Indictment for escape. The defendant, John Adams, was convicted of larceny from the person. A motion in arrest of judgment was thereupon made.
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Appeal, No. 14, March T., 1897, by defendant, from judgment and sentence of Q. S., Lebanon County, June Sess., 1896, No. 54, on plea of guilty. Indictment for escape. The defendant, John Adams, was convicted of larceny from the person. A motion in arrest of judgment was thereupon made. While the defendant was being conveyed from the courthouse to the county jail, pending said motion, he escaped from the custody of the sheriff, but was immediately recaptured and indicted for an escape, to which he pleaded guilty, and was sentenced to imprisonment in the Eastern Penitentiary, at labor, for a…
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion by
Smith, J.,
The defendant had been tried and convicted in the court of quarter sessions of Lebanon county of the crime of larceny from the person, and while a motion in arrest of judgment in that proceeding was pending, he escaped from the custody of the sheriff while being taken from the courthouse to the county jail.
Upon being arraigned he entered a plea of guilty to an indictment which, though inartistic and lacking in formal averments, in substance charges.an escape by the defendant from the jailer of the county, while lawfully in custody as a defendant in a criminal prosecution…
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