People v. Johnson

The defendant and appellant in this case, while a prisoner, lawfully confined within the state prison at Folsom in the state of California and serving a term therein upon conviction previously had and judgment pronounced, was taken from said prison to the county of Sierra to one of the construction camps there being maintained and placed at work on road construction being carried on in said county of Sierra, and, while there, escaped from the surveillance of the prison guards; was thereafter apprehended and brought to trial in the county of Sacramento, state of California. Judgment of…