Opinion ID: 1913318
Heading Depth: 1
Heading Rank: 47

Heading: d-6-agreement in reasonable time instruction

Text: ¶ 208. Holland next argues that D-6 should have been given, which basically states that Holland would get life imprisonment if the jury could not agree within a reasonable time. ¶ 209. This Court has already approved a jury instruction discussing the procedure to find for or against the death penalty, which did not include the reasonable time language found in Miss. Code Ann. § 99-19-103 (1994 rev.); King v. State, 421 So.2d 1009, 1018 (Miss. 1982), cert. denied, 461 U.S. 919, 103 S.Ct. 1903, 77 L.Ed.2d 290 (1983), vacated in part on other grounds, 656 So.2d 1168 (Miss. 1995). The King Court did allude to the reasonable time procedure, which the trial court had to follow, but did not require its inclusion. King, 421 So.2d at 1009. Therefore, it is arguable that the trial court could indeed bar this instruction.