People v. Clark

The defendant C. V. Clark was charged with the crime of escape, it being alleged that while he was in the lawful custody of William G. Kiester, deputy sheriff of the county of Los Angeles, and F. E. Wadsworth, superintendent of the detention camp, he escaped from said officers. The defendants Henry and Lewis M. Dischner are charged with assisting said Clark in making his escape from said officers. The two actions were consolidated and tried together, and the jury rendered a verdict, finding the defendants guilty as charged. It appears from the evidence that on February 8, 1924, the defendant Clark plead guilty to the crime of burglary, and on said day judgment was pronounced against him as follows: “Whereas, the said C. Vincent Clark having duly entered his plea of guilty in court of the crime of burglary, a felony, as charged in the information, which the court finds to be burglary in the second degree, it is therefore ordered, adjudged and decreed that the said C. Vincent Clark be punished by imprisonment in the state’s prison of the state of California at San Quentin for the term prescribed by law. The defendant was then remanded to the custody of the sheriff of the county of…