Copeland v. Manning

How courts have described this case

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• recognizing common law grand larceny as separate and distinct from the statutory offense of breaking and entering with intent to steal
• statutory escape does not depend on whether defendant is ultimately found guilty of underlying offense, but upon whether he was lawfully confined at time of his escape
• escape from detention while awaiting resentencing violates the statute

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).