Milton J. Martin v. United States

LEWIS, Circuit Judge.

On August 1, 1957, defendant-appellant, then a sergeant in the United States Air Force, was confined in the stockade at Bergstrom Air Force Base, Austin, Texas, waiting final disposition of military charges pending against him. During the early morning hours of that date he escaped confinement, obtained a Cessna 120 airplane belonging to the Bergstrom Air Force Base Aero Club and flew the airplane to Enid, Oklahoma, where he was arrested and subsequently charged with the unlawful transportation of a stolen airplane, knowing it to be stolen, a violation of 18 U.S.C.A. §…