People v. White

Mr. PRESIDING JUSTICE MILLS

delivered the opinion of the court:

Escape — jury trial — defense of necessity — guilty—2 years’ probation.

We affirm.

On July 6, 1978, defendant was serving a sentence for a felony theft and failed to return to the Urbana Community Correctional Center in Urbana from an authorized job interview that day. The defendant testified that he called a friend after filling out an application at the University of Illinois Employment Office and the friend told him that his wife had been raped and his daughter beaten. He said that he could not verify this information as his wife…