Eight years for beating | News

A Laurel man who was found guilty of beating his girlfriend with a stick went to jail for Valentine’s Day — and the next several years.

John Henry Gammage, 42, was ordered to serve eight years in the full-time custody of the Mississippi Department of Corrections after a Jones County jury found him guilty Thursday of domestic aggravated assault. The jury deliberated for about an hour before reaching its verdict. Gammage appeared to become angry and have words with his attorneys, Jeffrey Hall of Hattiesburg and Cruz Gray of Laurel, after the verdict.

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