Harden v. State

Cooper, Judge.

Appellant was convicted by a jury of two counts of aggravated assault, three counts of mutiny and kidnapping, two counts of theft by taking and escape stemming from his involvement in a jail break from the Houston County Jail. He appeals from the trial court’s denial of his motion for new trial, enumerating as error the sufficiency of the evidence and the trial court’s imposition of a felony sentence for escape.

The record of the evidence adduced at trial, construed to support the jury’s verdict, demonstrates that two deputies were distributing medications in one of the cell…