People v. Hadley

In an information filed in Sacramento County on November 26, 1947, appellant was charged with a violation of section 4531 of the Penal Code, in that on June 20, 1943, while a prisoner committed to the state prison at Folsom for a term less than life, and while at work outside the prison under the surveillance of prison guards, he escaped therefrom; and to toll the statute of limitations it was further alleged that defendant was absent from the state from July 7,1943, to April 29,1947.

On this appeal from judgment after conviction by a jury, appellant contends that the place from which he made…