Caffey v. State

BRETT, Presiding Judge:

Appellant, Thomas H. Caffey, was convicted for the offense of Escape From a Penal Institution in Atoka County District Court Case No. CRF-83-158, on March 7, 1984. He was sentenced to serve seven years in the custody of the Department of Corrections, with the provisions that the sentence run consecutively to the sentence for which appellant was in prison. He appeals.

On August 21, 1983, several inmates were missing from the Stringtown Correctional Center when the inmate count was accomplished. Appellant was among those missing. Appellant was apprehended in Hamilton,…