State v. Gordon

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Price, C. J.:

Defendant appeals from a conviction of “escape” as defined by K. S. A. 21-734.

The question presented is whether the “Kansas state reception and diagnostic center” (K. S. A. 76-24a01 et seq., as amended) and hereafter referred to as Center, is a penitentiary or prison within the meaning of the above mentioned “escape” statute.

For reasons hereafter appearing we hold that it is, and that defendant’s contentions to the contrary cannot be sustained.

In 1963 defendant was convicted in the district court of Sedgwick county of the offenses of…