State v. Zuidema

MR. JUSTICE JOHN C. HARRISON

delivered the Opinion of the Court.

This is an appeal from the District Court of the Ninth Judicial District, County of Pondera, from a conviction of the crime of assisting a prisoner in an attempt to escape from the county jail. A jury trial was had and defendant appeals from the judgment.

On December 20, 1969 there were four prisoners confined in the Pondera County jail. Steven M. Jackson was serving a 30 day sentence with but a day and one half of that sentence left to serve. Larry Hall, Richard Gong and Ed Pound were the other inmates. About 1:00 a.m. on Sunday…