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46 Ala. App. 591

Owens v. State

Court of Criminal Appeals of Alabama · decided 1971-03-23

Cited by 15 later decisions — most recently June 1987

15 state decisions

Key passage — most relied on by later courts

“Any convict who escapes or attempts to escape from the penitentiary or from any person or guard having him in charge under authority of law, either within or outside the walls of the penitentiary, before the expiration of the term for which he was sentenced, shall, on conviction, be imprisoned for an additional term of not less than one year.”

quoted by 4 later decisions, including Brantley v. State, 376 So. 2d 821 - Jacques v. State

“No proposition of law is more fundamental than the one requiring that the proof at trial must correspond with the material allegations of the indictment.”

quoted by 4 later decisions, including Ex Parte Randle, Ex Parte Hightower

Relies on Stone v. State · 24 Ala. App. 591 - Kemp v. State · Garner v. State

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Decided 1971-03-23

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ALMON, Judge.

¶1The one count indictment singularly charged that appellant “ did escape from said Camp Eight Mile before the expiration of the term for which he was sentenced Tit. 14, § 153, Code 1940, as amended by Act. No. 371, Acts of Alabama, Regular Session, 1951, p. 664.

¶2The proof showed that appellant escaped from the custody of a prison guard while working on a road gang twelve miles from “Camp Eight Mile.”

¶3Section 153, supra, reads as follows:

Any convict who escapes or attempts to escape from the penitentiary, or from any person or guard having him in charge under authority of law, either within or outside the walls of the penitentiary before the expiration of the term for which he was sentenced, shall, on conviction be imprisoned for an additional term of not less than one year.” (Emphasis added.)

¶4We consider this, a fatal variance. No proposition of law is more fundamental than the one requiring that the proof at trial must correspond with the material allegations Of the indictment. Stone v. State, 115 Ala. 121, 22 So. 275; Prentice v. State, 24 Ala.App. 587, 139 So. 437; Garner v. State, 3 Ala.App. 161, 57 So. 502; Ashby v. State, 24 Ala.App. 466, 136 So. 483; State v. Plunket, 2 Stew. 11.

¶5Since appellant waived a jury trial and was tried by the court without the intervention of a jury, we mention the requirements of Singleton v. State, 8 Div. 405, Ala. Ms; Feb. 4, 1971, in the event of another trial.

¶6Reversed and remanded.

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