People v. Crider

This is an appeal by the defendant from a judgment of conviction of the crime of escaping from a state prison. The information charges in substance that while undergoing a sentence of twelve years’ imprisonment in the state prison at San Quentin, under and by virtue of a judgment of the superior court of the state of California in and for the county of San Diego, rendered July 28, 1922, said defendant did wilfully, unlawfully, and feloniously escape from said state prison.

Section 105 of the Penal Code reads as follows: “Every prisoner confined in a state prison, for a term less than for life,…