State v. Lewin

The opinion of the court was delivered by

AlleN, J.:

The appellant was taken before the district court of Leavenworth county on an information signed by S. W. Chase, warden of the penitentiary, charging that on the 3d day of July, 1893, the defendant was lawfully confined in the state penitentiary upon a sentence of six years from the 11th day of October, 1892, by the district court of Sumner county, for the crime of burglary and larceny, and that on the 3d day of July he unlawfully escaped from the penitentiary. This information is filed under § 28, chapter 152, of the Laws of 1891, entitled…