Brown v. State

Plaintiff in error, hereinafter called the defendant, was convicted under the provisions of section 28-736, R. R. S. 1943, by a verdict of a jury of attempting to escape legal custody. He brings error here. His assignment's are that the court erred in not sustaining his motion for a directed verdict and in the giving of one instruction to the jury.

We affirm the judgment of the trial court.

Defendant was involved in a disturbance in an apartment house in Omaha on March 25, 1956. Property was damaged and glass was broken. Defendant was taken to a hospital where stitches were put in a cut in his…