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PHILLIPS v. STATE

No. 56093.

493 So.2d 350 (1986)

Richard Wayne PHILLIPS v. STATE of Mississippi.

Supreme Court of Mississippi.

August 13, 1986.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Ralph H. Doxey, Doxey & Jones, Holly Springs, for appellant.

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

EN BANC.

ROBERTSON, Justice, for the Court:

I.

This most unusual case arises from an oft-convicted felon's seizure of a county jail on a cold winter's night in 1983 during the course of which three sheriff's deputies were held hostage for more than six hours. Even more unusual was the defense: that the whole idea was cooked up by the sheriff.

A circuit court jury returned a general verdict of "guilty of kidnapping...

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