WELCH v. STATE

No. 07-KA-58667.

566 So.2d 680 (1990)

Mark Art WELCH v. STATE of Mississippi.

Supreme Court of Mississippi.

Rehearing Denied October 3, 1990.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Steven E. Farese, Farese Farese & Farese, Ashland, for appellant.

Edwin Lloyd Pittman, Atty. Gen., elected Supreme Court Justice Jan. 3, 1989, Mike C. Moore, Atty. Gen., Wayne M. Snuggs, Asst. Atty., Harrison Solomon Ford, III, Deirdre McCrory, Sp. Asst. Attys. Gen., Jackson, for appellee.

EN BANC.


SULLIVAN, Justice, for the Court:

I.

On October 7, 1986, the badly beaten body of Joseph Ray Heath was found in a rural area of DeSoto County, near Arkabutla Lake. The body was partially clothed. The cause of death was confirmed by pathologist Thomas McLees to be multiple severe trauma.

Walter Robertson and James Cole, employees of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, found the decedent Heath. Mississippi...

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