State v. Long

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Dawson, J.:

The defendant, Ollie Long, was a state prisoner in the city jail of Baxter Springs and in some undisclosed manner he obtained a weapon whereby he held up and robbed his jailer of a .45 Colt revolver worth $25 and effected his own escape and that of another prisoner.

Sixty days later defendant was apprehended and the revolver which he had taken from the jailer was found in his possession. His conviction of the crime of robbery followed, a felony carrying a punishment of ten to twenty-one years in the penitentiary. (R. S. 21-530.) He appeals,…