Mays v. State

WINDOM, Presiding Judge.

Benjamin Carter Mays appeals his conviction for second-degree escape, see § 13A-10-32, Ala.Code 1975, and his resulting sentence of 17 years in prison. Because the evidence presented at trial was insufficient to sustain the conviction, this Court reverses Mays’s conviction and renders a judgment for him.

On May 19, 2011, Mays pleaded guilty in the Jackson District Court to possession of drug paraphernalia and was sentenced to one year in the Jackson County jail. That sentence was split, and Mays was ordered *508to serve 97 days in jail1 and was placed on probation for 24…