Young v. State

OPINION

JOHN W. WILSON, Special Justice.

The parties will be designated as in the trial court; that is, John Henry Young as defendant, and State of Tennessee as State.

The defendant, on his plea of not guilty, was tried and convicted in the Criminal Court of Hamblen County upon each count of an indictment containing two counts, charging in the first count that defendant forcibly took from the person of Fred Moser one set of keys to the Hamblen County Jail by use of a deadly weapon in violation of T.C.A. § 39-3901. In the second count it is alleged that defendant escaped from the Hamblen County…