Behel v. State

DeCARLO, Judge.

These appeals involve two escapes and are submitted to this court on oral argument. For the purposes of oral argument these cases, 8 Div. 285 and 8 Div. 286, were consolidated. The two cases are now consolidated for the purpose of appellate review.

*162While serving a forty-year sentence for a first degree burglary conviction, appellant escaped from the Lauderdale County Jail. He was charged with the offense of escape and, at arraignment, pleaded guilty to the charge. Sentencing was postponed to a later date. Prior to sentencing in the first escape case, appellant escaped a second…