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JOHNSON v. STATE

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246 Ga. 126 (1980)

269 S.E.2d 18

JOHNSON v. THE STATE.

Supreme Court of Georgia.

Decided July 1, 1980.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Powell & Snelling, Richard L. Powell, for appellant.

Richard E. Allen, District Attorney, Arthur K. Bolton, Attorney General, for appellee.

BOWLES, Justice.

Payne Fair Johnson, Jr. was convicted of intentionally escaping from lawful confinement in the Richmond County Jail and sentenced to four years to run consecutively with an earlier sentence of life imprisonment. At the time of the escape Johnson had been confined at the Richmond County Jail pending an appeal of convictions in Richmond County for armed robbery and aggravated assault. Johnson appeals his conviction of escape, alleging numerous errors...

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