HEARD v. STATE

3 Div. 371.

335 So.2d 679 (1976)

Lincoln HEARD, alias v. STATE.

Court of Criminal Appeals of Alabama.

May 18, 1976.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Paul D. Owens, Jr., Brewton, for appellant.

William J. Baxley, Atty. Gen., and Lawson Little, Asst. Atty. Gen., for the State.


BOOKOUT, Judge.

Assault with intent to murder; sentence: twenty years imprisonment.

The offense in question took place at Atmore State Prison (now Fountain Correctional Facility) on January 18, 1974. The assault took place during a prison riot, which the warden testified that some inmates termed a "revolution." The victim was inmate John Boykin, who was beaten and stabbed by rioting prisoners in the prison's segregation unit.

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