Ashley v. Lawrence

William C. Ashley petitions for a writ of habeas corpus. He was sentenced June 15, 1939, to not more than twenty years in the Washington state reformatory for first-degree forgery. June 19, 1939', while awaiting transportation to the reformatory, he escaped from the Benton county jail. Upon being recaptured, he entered a plea of guilty to an information charging that he “did, by force, escape from the said Benton County jail,” he then and there

“. . . being in the lawful custody of the sheriff of Benton County, Washington and being, then and there convicted and under sentence for the crime of…