State v. Hoffman

The defendant herein, George Hoffman, being then confined in the state penitentiary at Walla Walla, was, by information filed April 25, 1946, by the prosecuting attorney of Walla Walla county, charged with the crime of “escape as prisoner,” the charging portion of the information reading as follows:

“That the said George Hoffman in the county of Walla Walla, State of Washington, on the 24th day of April, 1946, being then and there a prisoner confined in a prison to wit: The Washington State Penitentiary, under and by virtue of a sentence imposed and commitment issued by R. M. Webster, a judge…