Phillips v. State

OPINION

CORNISH, Presiding Judge:

The appellant, while a juvenile, was charged, certified, and convicted in 1978 of Grand Larceny in LeFlore County, Case No. CRF-77-205. He received a two (2) year suspended sentence which was later revoked. While serving this sentence he escaped from confinement, was convicted of escape, in Case No. CRF-78-112, and received an additional two (2) year sentence. Thereafter, this Court voided the appellant’s grand larceny conviction. 1

On appeal from his escape conviction, the appellant first argues that he was not being held in “lawful custody”. He is correct in…