The state Court of Appeals has upheld the conviction of William Presley Brown II for the 2006 slaying of Chenara Young, who was beaten to death at a downtown Vicksburg high-rise apartment building.

Brown was convicted of murder in 2007 in Warren County and sentenced to life in prison.

Prosecutors said Brown beat Young to death with a baseball bat and then dumped her nude body into a trash receptacle outside the apartment building, where he lived. Another tenant found the body.

According to the court record, Brown claimed an unknown man with a disfigured eye, whom he met while he was with Young at a convenience store, beat the woman with a baseball bat and ran away.

The Appeals Court Tuesday upheld the conviction and sentence.