Mayo v. State

PRICE, Judge.

Appellant was convicted of the offense of having escaped from lawful custody, under Title 14, Sec. 156, Code of 1940. As punishment for said offense the jury assessed a fine of five hundred dollars and the court imposed, as additional punishment, six months hard labor for. the county.

The demurrer to the indictment was properly overruled. The signature of the Solicitor to an indictment is proper, but is not essential to its validity. Ala. Digest, Indictment and Information, 33(1), and cases cited.

The testimony for the State tended to show that on June 6, 1951, appellant was…