State v. Crouch

HOLMAN, Commissioner.

It was charged in the information in this case that defendant, William F. Crouch, while lawfully confined in the Missouri *554State Penitentiary, attempted to escape therefrom by placing an iron hook attached to a braided leather rope over the top of the wall of said penitentiary, and that he used the rope to climb upon the wall but failed in the perpetration of said offense. A jury found defendant guilty of the offense charged and fixed his punishment at imprisonment in the penitentiary for a term of two years. Defendant has appealed. In his brief he raises but one point,…