Abercrombie v. State

McQUADE, Justice.

Appellant, Ronald Roma Abercrombie, whose complete education consists of intermittent attendance at public schools for three or four years and completion of the eighth grade in prison, has spent some twenty of his thirty-five years in different jails. On April 15, 1962, while serving a sixty day sentence in the Nez Perce County jail for petit larceny (shoplifting), he participated in a disturbance during which he admittedly tore up his mattress and engaged in “yelling and singing and cussing.” ,;

Owen Knowlton, then Nez Perce County prosecuting attorney, testified at the…