STATE v. RICHARDS


626 S.W.2d 717 (1981)

STATE of Tennessee, Appellee, v. Charles Lee RICHARDS, Appellant.

Court of Criminal Appeals of Tennessee, At Knoxville.

Permission to Appeal Denied January 25, 1982.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

John F. Southworth, Jr., Asst. Atty. Gen., Nashville, Richard McConnell, Asst. Dist. Atty. Gen., Knoxville, for appellee.

Albert J. Newman, Jr., Knoxville, for appellant.


Permission to Appeal Denied by Supreme Court January 25, 1982.

OPINION

DAUGHTREY, Judge.

The appellant-defendant, Charles Lee Richards, was convicted of escaping from the Knoxville City Jail while being held there on a felony charge. The jury fixed his sentence at two to five years imprisonment. Richards claims that he did not escape from the jail but rather that his release resulted from an administrative error.

On September 10, 1979, two...

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