State v. Ridge

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Schroeder, J.:

This is an appeal in a criminal action wherein the appellant was charged as principal and as an accessory before die fact with the offense of aggravated assault upon a guard at the Kansas State Penitentiary (K. S. A. 21-431). Judgment and sentence were pronounced after the appellant entered a plea of guilty.

On the 7th day of October, 1968, a guard by the name of Travis J. Adams was seriously injured by bricks and a large piece of cement that were dropped on him from above in one of the cell houses at the Kansas State Penitentiary.…