Harris v. State

PIERCE, Judge.

This is an appeal by Sammie Lee Harris from a judgment of conviction and sentence of imprisonment imposed by the Pinellas County Circuit Court, consequent upon a plea of guilty to an information charging him with felonious escape.

Defendant Harris contends here that because the trial Judge, in receiving the plea of guilty and passing sentence, referred to the crime charged as “escape” rather than “felonious escape”, and also because at the time he escaped from jail he had not been actually convicted of the offense for which he was held in custody but was merely awaiting trial,…