Prosecution Could Rest Today In Nursing Home Beating Trial
By: Import User
Updated: January 7, 2009
Prosecutors could wrap up their portion
of the case today in the capital murder trial of a Fordyce nurse
charged with beating a patient to death.
Forty-five-year-old Gayla Smith Wilson of Fordyce is accused of
using lead knuckles to beat 81-year-old Willie Mae Ryan on July
30th, 2003, at the Dallas County nursing home. Ryan died two weeks
later at a Pine Bluff hospital.
Wilson is charged with capital murder, and prosecutors say they
will seek the death penalty if she is convicted. A nurse`s aide
pleaded guilty and cooperated with prosecutors. Eighteen-year-old
Shermika Rainey could testify today.
