State v. Davis

OPINION

FEDERICI, Justice.

Respondent Robert Earl Davis (respondent) is serving multiple prison terms for approximately fifty felony convictions. At issue here is the enhancement of a deferred sentence he received after being convicted for supplying the gun that enabled Thomas Wayne Crump to escape from the Torrance County Jail on June 17, 1982.

A Torrance County District Court jury convicted the respondent in 1983 of possession of a deadly weapon by a prisoner, a third-degree felony. The trial court deferred sentence and placed him on three years’ probation. He appealed. The Court of Appeals…