State v. Keith

Petrie, A.C.J.

David Keith, Michael Worthey and Patrick Daniels were residents at the Washington Corrections Center at Shelton. At 6 a.m. on December 29, 1973, center guards discovered that these men (along with other residents) were missing from the institution. They were subsequently recaptured and tried to a court; all three were found guilty of the crimes of escape and malicious destruction of property. They contend on appeal: (1) that there was insufficient evidence to support the trial court’s findings that they had each maliciously destroyed property; and (2) that they had each been…