McLaurin v. State

JONES, Justice.

Appellant was convicted of murder and was sentenced to life imprisonment by the Circuit Court of Sunflower County. We affirm.

Appellant was a trusty at the State Penitentiary. On or about June 17, 1970, a prisoner, Danny C. Bennett, while working, complained of being sick. Thereupon, the appellant and another trusty attacked him. They heat him brutally with a lead-filled rubber hose and with an ax handle. The beating was so severe that Bennett begged one of the guards to shoot him. After he had fallen and had lain in the *846cotton field for a while, he was carried to the hospital,…