State v. Shook

This is an appeal from a judgment of conviction and sentence for the crime of breaking detention. The defendant, the appellant herein, who was confined in the Defiance County jail awaiting arraignment on a charge of operating a motor vehicle without the owner’s consent, was charged with a breach of that confinement by leaving the jail without judicial release for a period of some days in violation of E. C. 2921.34(A). This section reads in part as follows:

“(A) No person, knowing he is under detention or being reckless in that regard, shall purposely break or attempt to break such detention,…