Bryant v. State

Carley, Judge.

Appellant was indicted for felony escape from lawful confinement while serving a nine-year sentence for burglary and aggravated assault of a police officer. He entered a plea of not guilty and was brought to trial before a jury. The state presented evidence of the circumstances of the escape and appellant was identified as one of the escapees. Appellant was then sworn as his own sole witness and testified that, although he had been convicted and sentenced in Clayton County for the burglary and aggravated assault offenses, he had been “boarded out” in the Forest Park jail.…