Bell v. State

OPINION

COATS, Judge.

In August of 1981 Willie Bell was serving a sentence of five years with three years suspended on two felony convictions for promoting prostitution. On the night of August 27, 1981, Bell left the Palmer Correctional Center where he was incarcerated. Bell was apprehended the next morning and ultimately was convicted of escape from a correctional facility, a class B felony. 1 Judge Justin Ripley found that Bell was a second felony offender and sentenced him to a presumptive sentence of four years. 2 Judge Ripley made this sentence consecutive to Bell’s prior sentences on the…