Swoape convicted in Coffee Co.
After beating rape charges last year, Bubba Swoape was not as fortunate his second time in court as jurors deliberated only a few minutes before finding him guilty on drug charges.
As result of the conviction, Marvin Timothy (Bubba) Swoape, 36, will not have to spend a day behind bars at the Warren County Jail despite receiving an 11-month, 29-day sentence for illegal possession of Xanax. However, he owes neighboring Coffee County six years behind bars on a violation of probation charge which he now faces.
Swoape has remained behind bars since his acquittal on rape charges here this past November, held in Coffee County on the violation of probation charge. Swoape was arrested in the summer of 2002 and spent a year and a half behind bars awaiting trial on the rape count. Jurors chose to acquit Swoape on the rape charge, brought by a woman who claimed he raped her in her home at knife point.
However, Swoape was transported immediately back to Coffee County following the acquittal to be held there on the probation violation charges which came due to his drug charge. Ironically, the drug charge came after lawmen reported finding Xanax on his person when he was arrested on the rape count, a charge for which he was later acquitted.