Inmates sentenced in cellmate-slaying cases

[Informer]

Inmates sentenced in cellmate-slaying cases

McALESTER -- An Oklahoma State Penitentiary inmate has pleaded guilty in the slaying of a cellmate, and another inmate was found guilty by a jury of killing another cellmate in recent, unrelated cases.

Joshua Sellman, 25, pleaded guilty to first-degree manslaughter last week in a case that was set to go to trial this week.

He was accused of stomping to death Larry Robert Sartin, 42, in 2005.

Pittsburg County District Judge Thomas Bartheld sentenced Sellman to 20 years in prison, to run consecutively with his existing sentences for assault and battery on an Office of Juvenile Affairs employee and other offenses.

In the second case, a Pittsburg County jury on Tuesday found Darrell W. Hogan, 46, guilty of first-degree murder in the 2004 slaying of his cellmate, James Wise, 21.

Wise was choked with a cord from a laundry bag and died at an Oklahoma City hospital.

Hogan in December 2004 was convicted and sentenced to life without parole possible, but his conviction was overturned by the Oklahoma Court of Criminal Appeals.

He was sentenced Tuesday to life in prison with parole possible.