Sanders v. State

ON WRIT OF CERTIORARI

PIERCE, Justice,

for the Court:

¶ 1. More than twenty years after the murder of W.D. and Elma Crawford, their grandson Keir Sanders was arrested and indicted for their murders. He was tried by the Circuit Court of Tishomingo County, sitting, on a change of venue, in Lee County. Sanders was found not guilty of murder by reason of insanity on Count I, but the jury found that he remained insane and a danger to the community. On Count II, Sanders was found guilty of murder, and he was sentenced to life in prison as a habitual offender. The circuit court ordered him confined to…