People v. Clark

Motion to reinstate appeal heretofore dismissed by this court for the reason that appellant had escaped from jail subsequent to the taking of said appeal, and was a fugitive from justice at the time of the dismissal thereof. The appellant was convicted of murder in the first degree and sentenced to suffer the death penalty. He appealed to this court from the judgment of convic tion. On the eighth day of March, 1926, said appeal, after the same had been argued herein, was submitted for decision. On the sixteenth day of March, 1926, appellant escaped from the county jail of the county of Los…