Damron v. Commonwealth

STEPHENSON, Justice.

Ronnie Damron was convicted by a jury with verdicts as follows: escape in the first degree — five years; kidnapping a jailer— ten years; kidnapping a church pianist— ten years; theft over $100 — one year.

At the second stage of the trial, he was found guilty of being a persistent felony offender in the first degree and sentenced to twenty-one years’ imprisonment.

Damron and four other inmates of the Caldwell County jail overpowered a deputy jailer, tied him with a torn sheet, and fled the premises.

All of the inmates, after leaving the jail, broke into and spent the night in…