Wright v. State

MORGAN, Judge.

In this post-conviction proceeding under Supreme Court Rule 27.26, V.A.M.R., the trial court, after an evidentiary hearing, denied relief and movant has appealed.

Factually, the record reflects that mov-ant was sentenced to a term of four years in the state penitentiary in the month of June, 1968; that, soon thereafter, he was returned to the county jail that he might testify as a witness in another criminal proceeding; that he attempted to escape on August 16, 1968, by striking the jail-keeper on the head five or six times with a two-foot-long piece of angle iron; that on August…