MILLER, Chief Justice:
The defendant, William Ellsworth Wayne, was convicted of first degree murder with a recommendation of mercy in the Circuit Court of Marshall County. His principal claim of error is that the court misapplied the felony-murder rule because the underlying felony of robbery had been completed prior to the murder. The State's theory of the case was that the defendant was among the initial group of four or five inmates who engineered the escape and...
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