Apgar v. State

Quillian, Chief Judge.

Defendant appeals his conviction for aiding the escape of four prisoners from the Georgia State Prison. Held:

1. The general grounds are asserted.

The state’s evidence showed that defendant, a prisoner, delivered prison correctional officers uniform shoulder patches to prisoners sentenced to death. The patches were sewn on shirts used as a disguise by the four prisoners who escaped. Defendant admitted knowing of the planned escape and the delivery of the patches in his pretrial statement and in his testimony, but raised the defense of coercion by evidence that he was…