State v. Adcox

HAYS, Chief Justice.

The appellant, Kenneth DeWayne Adcox, was charged with the crimes of assault with a deadly weapon, robbery, and kidnapping. He initially pled not guilty to all three charges but changed his plea to guilty of the crime of robbery. The charges of aggravated assault and kidnapping were dropped and he was sentenced to twenty-five to thirty years on the robbery charge.

It appears from the reporter’s transcript of the preliminary hearing that on May 9, 1968, the defendant escaped from the Arizona State Hospital in Phoenix and went to a nearby home where he threatened the owner…