State v. Lampkin

I find that the majority has erred in four respects in this appeal. First, on the basis of a single casual statement in the State’s brief that the defendant who took the appeal in this matter had escaped from the parish jail and was a fugitive, and with no showing in the record that such was a fact, the majority has considered the defendant a fugitive and determined the procedure to be followed now that former R.S. IS :54s,1 which called for the dismissal of a pending appeal if the defendant was a fugitive from justice, is repealed and has no counterpart in the present Code of Criminal…