Keith v. Leverette

Caplan, Chief Justice:

This is an original proceeding in habeas corpus wherein the relator seeks relief from the imposition of two sentences directed by the .court to run consecutively. We deny the relief.

Relator Michael Glenn Keith, while serving a sentence in the Randolph County jail, together with Robert Lee Golden, Jr. and Francis Joseph McBride, escaped. During the escape the jailer, John Barrick, received a gunshot wound and the three inmates fled in his automobile. They were apprehended and returned to jail in Randolph County.

Subsequently, the relator was indicted on the charge of…