Jones v. State
| Decision Date | 27 October 1930 |
| Docket Number | 28733 |
| Citation | 158 Miss. 366,130 So. 506 |
| Court | Mississippi Supreme Court |
| Parties | JONES v. STATE |
1 ESCAPE. Defendant should be required to serve term for offense of escaping from jail independent of original sentence (Hemingway's Code 1927, section 926).
Code 1906, section 1156 (Hemingway's Code 1927, section 926) provides that, if any person sentenced to penitentiary for any term less than for life escapes, he shall be punished by imprisonment for term not exceeding five years, to commence from and after expiration of original term of imprisonment.
2. CRIMINAL LAW.
Sentence for robbery was suspended, not abrogated, by fact that defendant appealed.
3 ESCAPE.
That robbery case was afterwards reversed on appeal could not affect or diminish defendant's crime of escaping from jail while under penitentiary sentence (Hemingway's Code 1927, section 926).
APPEAL from circuit court of Amite county, HON. R. L. CORBAN, Judge.
Odessa Jones was convicted of escaping from jail while under sentence for less than life to the state penitentiary, and he appeals. Affirmed.
See, also, 152 Miss. 900, 120 So. 199.
Affirmed.
E. O. Whittington, of Liberty, and J. S. McGuire, of McComb, for appellant.
The plea in abatement should have been sustained.
The appellant was not awaiting conveyance to the penitentiary as he had filed notice of appeal and had given a pauper's affidavit and prayed an appeal with stay of judgment. The various sections dealing with escape of prisoners do not under any circumstances touch this case.
E. R. Holmes, Jr., Assistant Attorney-General, for the state.
This indictment is drawn under section 926, Hemingway's Code 1927. That section makes it a crime to escape from custody if such person escaping is sentenced to the penitentiary for any term less than life, and before confinement therein. All that is necessary, therefore, to constitute a valid indictment under this section is (1) that a person be sentenced to the penitentiary; and (2) that before his confinement therein he shall escape from custody. The indictment in this case charges the necessary elements.
State v. Hinton, 139 Miss. 513, 104 So. 352; State v. Traylor, 100 Miss. 54, 56 So. 521; State v. Presley, 91 Miss. 377, 44 So. 827; State v. Young, 104 La. 201, 28 So. 984. Section 926 of Hemingway's Code of 1927, covers the indictment in this case. Bradford v. State (Ala.), 41 So. 471.
The appellant, Odessa Jones, was convicted of escaping from jail while under sentence, for less than life, to the state penitentiary, and sentenced to serve a term of two years in the state penitentiary for said crime, and, from such conviction and sentence, he prosecutes this appeal.
The indictment as drawn, and the conviction had, was under section 926, Hemingway's Code 1927, section 1156, Code 1906.
It is not necessary to state the facts for the reason that there is no doubt but that the appellant, in company with other prisoners in a county jail, escaped therefrom by breaking the lock thereof and remained at large for many months. There is no question but that he was under sentence of the circuit court, at the time he escaped from the county jail, to the state penitentiary, and that he had not been delivered to the officials thereof. He escaped jail a few days after the adjournment of the circuit court at which he was convicted of the crime of robbery.
Before the adjournment of the term of court in which he was sentenced to the state penitentiary for the crime of robbery, he took the necessary steps to prosecute an appeal, which appeal, 152 Miss. 900, 120 So. 199, finally resulted favorably to him, in that the cause was reversed and remanded for another trial, such reversal occurring many months after appellant's escape from the county jail.
Subsequent to the reversal, he returned to the town in which the county jail was situated, and was taken in custody by the sheriff.
The indictment found by the grand jury, which indictment is here under review, was found subsequent to the reversal of the robbery case. Section 926, Hemingway's Code 1927, section 1156, Code of 1906, is in the following language: "If any person sentenced to the penitentiary for any term less than for life shall break such prison and escape thence, or shall escape from custody before confinement therein, he shall, upon conviction, be...
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