State v. Camillo

SOMERVILLE, Judge.

Defendant was charged as a second offender with the felony of escape, Section 557.351, RSMo 1969, tried by a jury and found guilty, and sentenced by the court to five years confinement in the Missouri Department of Corrections. The five year sentence was ordered to run consecutively with a life sentence being served by defendant for murder, first degree.

Defendant does not question the sufficiency of the evidence to support his conviction. For this reason, an extended synopsis of the trial evidence is unnecessary. Briefly, the state introduced evidence from which the jury…