Phelps v. State

BARRON, Judge.

Larry Wade Phelps was indicted by a Coffee County Grand Jury during its Spring 1979 term for escape. He was tried and convicted by a jury on September 21, 1981, and was sentenced to seven years.

The escape occurred on March 2, 1979, from the holding room of the Coffee County Courthouse in Enterprise, shortly after appellant had been taken into custody by the Coffee County Sheriff’s Department on a fugitive warrant from the Alabama Board of Corrections.

Appellant had previously, in 1977, been convicted of a marijuana possession charge and had been sentenced to five years. He was…