State v. Davidson

GARRISON, Judge.

Following a jury trial, Willis Rex Davidson (Defendant) was convicted of the class D felony of escaping from confinement, in viola*88tion of § 575.210, RSMo Supp.1995, and sentenced as a prior offender to ten years’ imprisonment.

Defendant was being held in the Ozark County Jail on a charge of first-degree murder. On April 30, 1996, Defendant left his cell after discovering that it was unlocked. He then climbed through an open window in the booking room of the second floor sheriffs office, and jumped over twenty feet to the ground. Defendant, who had fractured an ankle and two…