State v. Leckenby

Edward Leckenby, under commitment to and an inmate of the Men’s Reformatory at Anamosa was charged, tried to a jury, convicted and sentenced for the crime of escape. He has appealed.

The information charged that defendant “having been committed to the Men’s Reformatory at Anamosa, Jones County, Iowa, and while so committed, did escape from and leave without due authority Farm No. 1, the farm and place in which he was placed or to which he was directed to go, or in which he was allowed to be by the warden and officers and employees of said prison and reformatory, contrary to the provisions of…