Sutton v. State

OPINION

CORNISH, Judge:

The appellant, Donald Lee Sutton, was convicted of Escaping from Prison in Greer County District Court, Case No. CRF-78-32. The jury sentenced him to four (4) years’ imprisonment. On June 10,1981, the petition for rehearing was filed, and, upon reconsideration, the original opinion filed in this case on May 27, 1981, was withdrawn.

On November 27, 1978, the appellant, who was a prisoner at the Oklahoma State Reformatory, in Granite, Oklahoma, was assigned to a work detail that was taken to Quartz Mountain State Park, where the prisoners were supervised by prison guards.…