Rucker v. State

MEMORANDUM OPINION

BUSSEY, Presiding Judge:

Appellant, Samuel Gordon Rucker, hereinafter referred to as defendant, was charged, tried and convicted in the District Court, Oklahoma County, Case No. CRF-76-4499, of the offense of Escape From a State Penitentiary, in violation of 21 O.S. 1971, § 443. His punishment was fixed at two (2) years’ imprisonment, and from said judgment and sentence a timely appeal has betn perfected to this Court.

The evidence at trial established that the defendant was an inmate at the Oklahoma City Community Treatment Center, a part of the Oklahoma State correctional…