A man sentenced in the 2012 shooting death of a National Guardsman could see his conviction overturned when he returns to Attala County Circuit Court March 31.
Barry Ware was sentenced to 30 years in prison in 2013, after pleading guilty to second-degree murder in connection Jan. 7, 2012 death of Cedric Sharkey in Sallis.
He will return to court at 10 a.m. March 31 after filing a motion to vacate his conviction and sentence.
Ware and Clifford Franklin Barber, 53, were accused of chasing down and killing Sharkey after they said he stole scrap metal from their property in Sallis, court records say.
Investigators said the men went to Sharkey's home on Attala Road in Sallis and accused him of stealing the scrap metal and said they were going to bring him to authorities. The men called the sheriff's department's dispatch and said they were following Sharkey. They told dispatchers that Sharkey was running from them.
Sharkey died of a gunshot wound after the men allegedly followed him into the woods while firing at him, according to court testimony.
Ware entered the guilty plea a week before his trial was set to begin.
Also on the docket are 25 cases involving drugs, 15 cases of theft, larceny or burglary, seven weapons crimes, five sex crimes, five fraud related crimes, three violent crimes and one embezzlement case. The docket also contains three civil forfeiture hearings.
The circuit court plea date was held last week with trial court to being March 6 at 10:30 a.m.
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