Thornton v. State

BOWEN W. SIMMONS, Retired Circuit Judge.

Appellant-defendant, an indigent, was convicted of escape and sentenced to ten years imprisonment in the penitentiary.

Omitting formal parts, the indictment charges that the defendant “ * * * did escape from the Lee County Jail, Lee County, Alabama, contrary to law and the provisions of Title 14, Section 153 of the Code of Alabama 1940, as recompiled.”

The Code section, supra, reads:. “Any convict who escapes or attempts to escape from the penitentiary, or from any person or guard having him in charge under authority of law, either within or outside the…