State v. Dignan

Kenna, Judge:

James Dignan, plaintiff in error, was sentenced in the Intermediate Court of Ohio County on February 15, 1929, to be confined in the penitentiary for a term of four years. • He escaped on August 4, 1930, while employed with a road gang in Braxton County, and was almost immediately recaptured. His sentence expired on February 17, 1933, and at the Febru ary term of the circuit court of Marshall County he was indicted for the escape, the indictment charging it as having occurred in Clay County. He was tried and convicted on the 8th day -of March, 1933, and on the 18th day of March,…