Legal Opinion
Artrip v. State
Alabama Court of Appeals
Decided January 9, 1962No. 3 Div. 91PublishedCited by 18 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
CATES, Judge.
Artrip appeals from a judgment convicting him of escaping from the penitentiary while serving a sentence. Code 1940, T. 14, § 153, as amended. He was sentenced to two years further confinement.
Artrip did not adduce evidence to support a traverse of the indictment, contenting himself merely with developing matters of avoidance and mitigation. The State’s evidence made out a prima facie case.
On arraignment Artrip pled former jeopardy, alleging in part as follows:
“ * * * defendant herein while serving a sentence in the Alabama Penitentiary * * * escaped * * * Upon return to prison…
2Cases cited17 opinions
- Powell v. AlabamaSupreme Court of the United States · 1932
- Williams v. New YorkSupreme Court of the United States · 1949
- Betts v. BradySupreme Court of the United States · 1942
- Chandler v. Warden FretagSupreme Court of the United States · 1954
- McNeal v. CulverSupreme Court of the United States · 1961
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3Cited by18 opinions
- Gideon v. WainwrightSupreme Court of the United States · 1963
- Gideon v. WainwrightSupreme Court of the United States · 1963
- Webb v. StateCourt of Criminal Appeals of Alabama · 1988
- Morris v. StateCourt of Criminal Appeals of Alabama · 1971
- Andrews v. StateCourt of Criminal Appeals of Alabama · 1985
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