State v. McCollum

BILLINGS, Presiding Judge.

Defendant was convicted by a Stoddard County jury of escaping from the county jail by means of a dangerous instrument [§ 575.210, V.A.M.S. 1979] and sentenced to twenty years. We affirm.

On November 15, 1978, defendant was arrested and placed in the Stoddard County jail on a charge of tampering with a motor vehicle. Defendant was incarcerated in a part of the jail known as the “bullpen”. At trial, defendant admitted he escaped from the jail on January 12, 1979, but denied that he was involved in a conspiracy to escape or that he had any prior knowledge of this escape.…