People v. Taylor

Mr. PRESIDING JUSTICE REARDON

delivered the opinion of the court:

Defendant, William Otis Taylor, was charged by information with escape from the Champaign County jail on August 5,1977. (Ill. Rev. Stat. 1975, ch. 38, par. 31 — 6.) Following a jury trial, defendant was found guilty and, thereafter, sentenced to a term of imprisonment of 2 to 6 years. This sentence was to run consecutively to defendant’s other sentences for four previous convictions.

At the trial, defendant did not dispute the State’s evidence that he was one of two individuals who escaped from the Champaign County jail during the…