A man on parole in Batesville has now been sentenced to 35 years in prison for killing a man from Mountain View in 2017. 37 year old Antonio Dewayne Briggs was sentenced to 35 years without parole for killing 37 year old William David Kendrick in July of 2017. Kendrick was found by his roommate, two days after he was stabbed to death. Kendrick’s safe had been pried open and his cell phone gone. Briggs was arrested five months after the death in Sherwood Arkansas. Briggs sentence of 35 years without parole will keep him locked up until he is 71 years old.