State v. Faison

PeR Cueiam.

The hope of escape has little merit. In these days of fast communication and transportation, less than one out of ten attempted escapes are successful — and the penalty for failure is severe, as this case demonstrates. The defendant has lost eighteen months out of his life for a few hours of frightened and terrified “freedom.”

The defendant in his brief says: “The only exception brought forward is the defendant’s assertion that it was error for the Court to have imposed a sentence of eighteen months’ imprisonment upon him for the crime of escape, third offense.”

Under the charge a…