Conway v. State

MEMORANDUM OPINION

BUSSEY, Presiding Judge:

Thomas Elisworth Conway, hereinafter referred to as “defendant,” was charged, tried and convicted in the District Court of Pottawatomie County of the offense of Escape from a state prison, his punishment was fixed at two years imprisonment, and from said judgment and sentence a timely appeal has been perfected to this Court.

Briefly stated the evidence at the trial revealed that the defendant was serving a thirty-five year sentence in the state penitentiary at McAlester. Elmer Joe Kirkpatrick, the prison athletic director, testified that on November…