Phillips v. State

493 So.2d 350 (1986)

Richard Wayne PHILLIPS

v.

STATE of Mississippi.

No. 56093.

Supreme Court of Mississippi.

August 13, 1986.

Ralph H. Doxey, Doxey & Jones, Holly Springs, for appellant.

Edwin Lloyd Pittman, Atty. Gen., by Billy L. Gore, Asst. Atty. Gen., Jackson, for appellee.

EN BANC.

ROBERTSON, Justice, for the Court:

I

This most unusual case arises from an oft-convicted felon's seizure of a county jail on a cold winter's night in 1983 during the course of which three sheriff's deputies were held hostage for more than six hours. Even more unusual was the defense: that the whole idea was cooked up by…