State v. Furlong

Joseph Furlong was indicted for willfully and feloniously escaping from the custody of the warden and other officers while outside the confines of the minimum custodial unit of the Rhode Island Adult Correctional Institutions (hereinafter referred to as the A.C.I.) in violation of G. L. 1956, §11-25-4.

Prior to trial defendant and the state filed an agreed statement of facts and joined in representing to a Superior Court justice that the question of law arising out of those facts was of such doubt and importance and so affected the merits of the controversy as to require resolution by this…