Owens v. State

ALMON, Judge.

The one count indictment singularly charged that appellant “ * * * did escape from said Camp Eight Mile before the expiration of the term for which he was sentenced * * Tit. 14, § 153, Code 1940, as amended by Act. No. 371, Acts of Alabama, Regular Session, 1951, p. 664.

The proof showed that appellant escaped from the custody of a prison guard while working on a road gang twelve miles from “Camp Eight Mile.”

Section 153, supra, reads as follows:

“ * * * Any convict who escapes or attempts to escape from the penitentiary, or from any person or guard having him in charge under…