Case Name: Sam BAKER, Jr., a/k/a Sam Winfield Baker, a/k/a Sammy Baker, a/k/a Same Castoe, a/k/a Sam Baker, Appellant, v. The STATE of Oklahoma, Appellee
Court: Oklahoma Court of Criminal Appeals
Jurisdiction: Oklahoma
Decision Date: 1982-04-19
Citations: 644 P.2d 110
Docket Number: No. F-81-598
Parties: Sam BAKER, Jr., a/k/a Sam Winfield Baker, a/k/a Sammy Baker, a/k/a Same Castoe, a/k/a Sam Baker, Appellant, v. The STATE of Oklahoma, Appellee.
Judges: BRETT, P. J., and CORNISH, J., concur.
Reporter: Pacific Reporter 2d
Volume: 644
Pages: 110–111

Head Matter:
Sam BAKER, Jr., a/k/a Sam Winfield Baker, a/k/a Sammy Baker, a/k/a Same Castoe, a/k/a Sam Baker, Appellant, v. The STATE of Oklahoma, Appellee.
No. F-81-598.
Court of Criminal Appeals of Oklahoma.
April 19, 1982.
J. F. Wilson, Maud, for appellant.
Jan Eric Cartwright, Atty. Gen., Jimmy D. Givens, Asst. Atty. Gen., Oklahoma City, for appellee.

Opinion:
MEMORANDUM OPINION
BUSSEY, Judge:
While serving a life sentence in the state penitentiary in McAlester, the defendant escaped from the Seminole County Jail, where he had been temporarily transferred pursuant to a writ of habeas corpus ad prosequendum. He was convicted of Escape from a Penal Institution, in violation of Laws 1976, ch. 175, § 1, now 21 O.S. Supp.1980, § 443, in Seminole County District Court, Case No. CRF-80-191, and from a sentence of two (2) years' imprisonment, he has appealed.
As his sole assignment of error, the appellant argues that he should have been charged under 57 O.S.1971, § 56, Breaking Jail, and that he was thus improperly charged and convicted. This argument must fail. One remains an inmate of a state penal institution, albeit constructively, when he is temporarily absent therefrom, such as in the case before us. Boone v. State, 642 P.2d 270 (Okl.Cr.1982); Goodson v. State, 562 P.2d 521 (Okl.Cr.1977); McCoy v. State, 536 P.2d 1309 (Okl.Cr.1975). The appellant was properly charged.
Accordingly, the judgment and sentence appealed from is AFFIRMED,
BRETT, P. J., and CORNISH, J., concur.