State v. Milum

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Foth, C.:

Stephen Decatur Milum was convicted by a jury of escaping from the Kansas state penitentiary and he has appealed. His basic contention is that he was prevented from putting his defense before the jury.

The defense was coercion, or compulsion, as codified by K. S. A. (novy 1972) Supp. 21-3209 (1):

“A person is not guilty of a crime other than murder of voluntary manslaughter by reason of conduct which he performs under the compulsion or threat of the imminent infliction of death or great bodily harin, if he reasonably believes that death or great…