State v. Stakenburg

UHLENHOPP, Justice.

This appeal involves a sentence imposed on a plea of guilty to a charge of escape under Code 1973, § 745.1:

If any person committed to the men’s . . . reformatory shall . leave without due authority any place whatsoever in which . he is allowed to be by the warden or any officer or employee of the prison whether inside or outside of the prison walls, he shall be deemed guilty of an escape from said ... reformatory and shall be punished by imprisonment in said . . . reformatory for a term not to exceed five years, to commence from and after the expiration of the term of his…