DEEN, Presiding Judge.
The appellant, Sammie Lockhart, was tried and convicted of aggravated assault on a police officer, stemming from his escape from the Sumter County Sheriff's Department on May 15, 1986. (He pleaded guilty to a charge of escape.) While awaiting being processed on a shoplifting charge, Lockhart was shackled to a couch with leg irons. When the jailer went back to the holding cells to check on another prisoner, Lockhart pried off the leg cuff with...
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