Man found guilty in Monroe County murder trial

ABERDEEN, Miss. (WCBI)- An Alabama man will spend the rest of his life in prison after being found guilty of murder.

Monroe County jurors deliberated a short time before finding Stanley Pace, of Pell City, Alabama, guilty of first degree murder.

He stabbed and killed Ronny Duke, 43 of Amory.

Duke’s body was found near Hatley back in January 2016.

At the time, Monroe County Sheriff Cecil Cantrell told WCBI that the two men had been drinking when they got into an argument.

Cantrell says Pace chased Duke out of a mobile home, and stabbed him multiple times with a replica of a civil war sword.