McMurray v. State

John Mauzy Pittman, Chief Judge.

The appellant, Wesley R. McMurray, was charged with committing second-degree battery by causing serious physical injury to a person over sixty years of age in concert with two or more other persons. After a jury trial, he was convicted of that offense and sentenced to four years’ imprisonment. On appeal, he argues that he was denied due process by the trial judge’s allowing the jury to ask a question concerning accomplice liability, and that the trial court abused its discretion by giving accomplice-liability instructions in response to the jury’s question. We…