Daugherty v. State

McDONALD, Presiding Judge.

Appellant was convicted for aiding a prisoner to escape from the custody of the sheriff; his punishment, three years.

The record reflects that appellant went to the jail to visit his brother Douglas Daugherty; that he took money from Douglas Daugherty to buy a gun; that he bought a gun at a pawn shop in Dallas and delivered it to his brother in jail; that later, Gillingham, another prisoner, pulled the gun on the sheriff and jailer; that Douglas Daugherty and the other prisoner escaped jail and from the custody of the sheriff.

Appellant’s confession was introduced…