Crosby v. Commonwealth

Opinion op the Court by

Chiep Justice Dietzman — '

Reversing.

Appellant, Arthur Crosby, was, in the springy of 1930, confined in default of bail in the Hardin county jail awaiting trial under an indictment then pending in the Hardin circuit court for house breaking. There were a number of other prisoners confined in the same part of the jail as he was. On the 12th day of May, these prisoners, including the appellant, escaped from the jail by means of a hole which had been dug through the walls and a ladder of blankets reaching from this hole on the level of the second floor to the ground.…