Johns v. State

Pope, Judge.

Joseph Randy Johns and Richard Frazier appeal their convictions of escape from lawful confinement. Held:

1. Appellants enumerate as error the trial court’s precluding them from asserting a defense of entrapment and also the court’s refusal to charge on that defense. The evidence showed that appellants were inmates of the Georgia Department of Corrections at Wayne Correctional Institute. On February 13, 1981 appellants ran away from a work detail without authority but were recaptured a few hours later. Appellants based their defense of entrapment upon the allegation that prison…