State v. Dover

SOMERVILLE, Presiding Judge.

Defendant was indicted on October 8, 1982, for escaping from the Church Farm, Missouri Department of Corrections, on December 30, 1976. Section 557.351, RSMo 1969.1 A jury found him guilty as charged and assessed his punishment at two years imprisonment in the Missouri Department of Corrections. Judgment entered and sentence pronounced accordingly.

Defendant does not question that he was lawfully confined in an institution under the control of the Missouri Department of Corrections on December 30, 1976, and that he escaped therefrom on that date. He raises one point…