Welborn v. State

Hall, Justice.

Welborn and Hitchcock obtained entry into the home of the victim and with a pistol robbed him of various items. He knew the robbers and identified them to officers. They were arrested and remained incarcerated until some two and one-half months later when they escaped by walking away from a work detail at the jail and fled the state. They were apprehended, convicted on their pleas of guilty to the crime of escape, and sentenced. At their subsequent armed robbery trial, from which the instant appeal was taken, evidence of the flight was introduced and the state urged an inference…