Summary of Offense:
On the evening of August 1, 1996, Johnny Wayne Hyde, James Blake, and Joel Coleman were drinking at a shed near Hyde’s house. Blake and Coleman decided to break into Leslie Howard’s mobile home to steal drugs, and Hyde agreed to help. They gathered assorted tools and weapons from Hyde’s shed, walked to the mobile home, pried the door open, and entered. After walking down a hallway to the bedroom, they encountered Howard sitting up in bed. Howard lunged at Hyde, and Hyde stabbed Howard several times with a knife. Howard fell to his knees, either Blake or Coleman hit him with a pipe in the back of his head, and Hyde stabbed him several times in the back and in the side with a drill bit.
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