Clark v. Commonwealth

HOGG, Judge.

Appellant, Otis Clark, having been convicted in 1952 on three felony charges, was confined in the Kentucky State Reformatory in Oldham County to serve three consecutive two-year terms. On May 19, 1954, he escaped from a work detail which had been taken to Jefferson County. After apprehension he was returned to the reformatory on May 22. During that month he was indicted in the Oldham Circuit Court for the crime of escaping from the penitentiary while serving sentence, as denounced by KRS 432.390. Upon trial on November 2, 1955, he was convicted on the charge and his punishment…