Pruitt v. State

Pope, Judge.

Appellant, Kenneth Clark Pruitt, was convicted by a jury on the felony charge of escape. At the time of the escape, appellant was serving a misdemeanor sentence at the Richmond County Correctional Institute in Augusta, Georgia for theft by taking. On June 14, 1984 when appellant was on a work detail, he and another inmate escaped. Appellant was recaptured two days later driving an automobile while intoxicated and without a driver’s license. Appellant appeals the conviction enumerating three errors.

1. Appellant first enumerates as error the trial court’s failure to grant a mistrial…