Clifford Lee Rademacher v. United States

JONES, Circuit Judge.

The appellant, while a prisoner serving a sentence at the Federal Correctional Institution at Texarkana, Texas, went over the wall, was pursued, captured and returned to the Institution. He was tried for violation of the Federal Escape Act, 18 U.S.C.A. § 751, and appeals from a conviction. Several contentions are made by the appellant, one of which is that the evidence was insufficient to take the case to the jury. The appellant had been a guard in a Louisiana prison and this, he claimed, had resulted in attacks on him by other inmates at Texarkana and placed his life in…