State v. Baker

Appellant was tried and convicted in the Circuit Court of Callaway County on the charge of escaping from the custody of officers guarding him on state prison farm No. 2, while out under guard, and while under sentence to and legally confined in the Missouri State Penitentiary for a term less than life. The jury assessed his punishment at imprisonment for two years, and from the judgment and sentence based upon .such verdict he appealed.

In his ¿motion for a new trial appellant complained generally of the trial court’s action in “giving each and every instruction asked by the state”,.and in…