State v. King

1 *4142 *413Tbe appellant, while a prisoner in tbe penitentiary at Anamosa for a period less than life, was taken, with about 80 other convicts, to work in tbe stone quarries, situated about two miles northwest of tbe prison proper, owned and operated by tbe state under the supervision of tbe warden. When returning from dinner, be and another dropped into a natural crevice in tbe rock, tbe opening to which was thereupon covered by one *414of their companions. They were soon missed by the guards* and, as the quarry was watched fpr some time, must have remained there for nearly two days, and then removed…