Com. v. Adams

Citations

• 3 Pa. Super. 167
• 1896 Pa. Super. LEXIS 122

Syllabus

<p>Criminal law — Words and phrases — Imprisonment—Escape.</p> <p>Imprisonment, in the legal sense, is not limited to the confinement of the person within prison walls. Any restraint of liberty, against the will of the person restrained, is in contemplation of law an imprisonment; and if such restraint is lawfully exercised, the person is lawfully imprisoned.</p> <p>The meaning of the term “ escape,” in law, is equally well settled. Any person, who, being lawfully confined or in 'custody, regains his freedom, with or without force, before being lawfully discharged, is guilty of an escape.</p> <p>Criminal law — Escape from prison.</p> <p>Where a prisoner, having been tried and convicted of larceny, escapes from the custody of an officer while on his way to jail, he is liable to the penalty imposed by see. 3, act of March 31, 1860, P. L. 385, upon those who “ break prison or escape.”</p>