State v. Gowins

RAWLINGS, Justice.

Appeal by defendant from judgment on jury verdict finding him guilty of willful escape, The Code 1971, Section 247A.6. We affirm.

Defendant, Larry D. Gowins (Gowins), was first charged with escape in violation of Code § 745.1, which provides:

“If any person committed to the penitentiary or to the men’s or women’s reformatory shall break such prison and escape therefrom or shall escape from or leave without due authority any building, camp, farm, garden, city, town, road, street, or any place whatsoever in which he is placed or to which he is directed to go or in which he is…