Eady v. State

Escape; sentence: twelve years imprisonment.

On January 6, 1978, appellant was serving time on a two year second degree burglary conviction in the Houston County Jail while awaiting transfer to the state penitentiary. Sheriff A.B. Clark testified that appellant, along with two other prisoners, was assigned to a work detail at the Houston County Farm Center that day and had been transported to the farm center by Mr. Easel Hamm, the utility foreman at the farm center. Mr. Hamm, a county employee not connected with law enforcement, was responsible for picking the prisoners up at the jail at 7:30…