PHOEBE TOLLEFSON
A 69-year-old Laurel man received the same 80-year prison sentence on Friday that he did after his first trial in 2015 for killing a man during a knife attack.
William Earl Cunningham was granted a new trial by the Montana Supreme Court in the 2014 death of 40-year-old Nathan Horn. He was convicted of deliberate homicide again last August.
It was the second night of drinking and arguing between the two men at a picnic table at Cunningham s apartment complex. Horn was there visiting a friend, who witnessed the killing and testified that she heard Cunningham say, âhit me,â and then saw him sitting on top of Horn with a pool of blood collecting on the ground.Â