Ellis v. Commonwealth

EDWARD P. HILL, Jr., Judge.

This appeal is prosecuted from a judgment overruling after a thorough oral hearing appellant’s motion to vacate a judgment convicting him of armed robbery. (RCr 11.42.) We affirm.

While appellant was confined in the Mc-Cracken County jail awaiting trial on the charge of armed robbery, a jailbreak was attempted, in which a deputy jailer received serious personal injuries. Appellant was charged with and convicted of a crime growing out of the attempted jailbreak and stabbing of the deputy jailer. Some days prior to the date of his trial on the charge of armed robbery,…