Isom v. State

481 So.2d 820 (1985)

Henry Mack ISOM

v.

STATE of Mississippi.

No. 55741.

Supreme Court of Mississippi.

December 11, 1985.

Lee Calvin Buckley, Holly Springs, for appellant.

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

Before PATTERSON, C.J., and PRATHER and SULLIVAN, JJ.

PRATHER, Justice, for the Court:

The appeal addresses the trial judge's effort to avert a mistrial by the giving of an additional instruction to a jury deadlocked solely on the issue of defendant's guilt as to a greater or lesser offense. The defendant, Henry Mack Isom, was indicted for the…