Conson
People v. Conson
Opinion
Lead Opinion
Tyler, J.
Defendant, upon information, was charged by the district attorney of Marin County with the crime of felony, to wit, escaping from state prison.
He is a prisoner confined at San Quentin, California, having entered that institution from Los Angeles County on or about the fifteenth day of June, 1922, to serve sentences upon two convictions of felony. . Thereafter, on July 14, 1924, he was assigned to Prison Road Camp “A,” located near the town of Requa, in Del Norte County. On the twenty-second day of July following he was found missing from the camp and some nine days thereafter apprehended and returned to San Quentin.
Subsequently, on the twenty-third day of August, 1924, at a hearing before the board of prison directors he was found guilty of a charge of escaping from prison and all the credits to which he was entitled under the Penal Code, which he had already earned and which he would thereafter, earn, were declared forfeited.
On November 14, 1924, an information was filed in the superior court of Marin County charging defendant with a violation of sections 105 and 106 of the Penal Code, relating to escapes from state prison, and it was upon this information that the…