Hall v. State

TYSON, Presiding Judge.

Elton Hall was charged by indictment with “escapes or attempts to escape from the penitentiary” pursuant to Title 14, § 15P, Code of Alabama 1940. The jury found the appellant guilty as charged, and the trial court set punishment at twenty years in the penitentiary.

Stephen W. Hicks, a Bessemer police officer, testified that while on patrol during the early morning hours of August 25, 1976, he stopped a 1970 blue Camero driven by Anita Weed. Officer Hicks asked Weed why she was driving about aimlessly near the Bessemer Courthouse. Hicks testified that approximately an…