Commonwealth v. LaRochelle

The defendant was indicted for escaping from land appurtenant to a penal institution, the prison camp and hospital at Rutland, when a prisoner therein on June 18,1926.

At the trial, by order of the judge, the evidence was taken and transcribed by the court stenographer pursuant to St. 1926, c. 329. The only assignment of error is to the refusal of the judge to direct a verdict for the defendant on the ground that there was no sufficient evidence to support the indictment.

There was evidence that the accused had been sentenced and committed to the State prison, and later transferred therefrom by…