Hernandez pleas not guilty to aggravated assault
Thirty people were arraigned and given plea or assignment dates Friday by Circuit Court Judge Charles Haston.
A plea or assignment date is the day on which the defendant must either announce a disposition of his or her case by plea or negotiated settlement or face docketing of a trial date to take the case before a jury. Those arraigned Friday were all given May 10 plea or assignment dates.
Included in arraignment action:
• Raul Landon Hernandez entered a not guilty plea to the charge of aggravated assault. He is accused of shooting a teen in the face at Wayside Trailer Court just before Christmas last year during a dispute over clothes.
• Ricky Fults entered a not guilty plea to charges of assault and retaliation for past action. He is accused of attacking a police investigator during court last month.
• Mary Taylor and Chris Taylor entered not guilty pleas to the charge of manufacture of methamphetamine.
• James Wisemore entered a not guilty plea to the charge of manufacture of meth.
• Ralph Pease and Jackie Wilson entered not guilty pleas to charges of manufacture of meth and simple possession of drugs.
• Jerry Pearsall entered a not guilty plea to charges of manufacture of meth and criminal littering.
• Michael A. Martin and April Sanders entered not guilty pleas to charges of manufacture of meth and simple possession of marijuana. Martin is not the Michael Martin who is 5th District county commissioner.
• Tracy Earl Burch entered a not guilty plea to the charge of possession with intent to sell drugs.
• James Tittsworth entered a not guilty plea to charges of possession with intent to sell drugs, possession of drug paraphernalia and possession of a weapon.
• Kim Brinkley entered a not guilty plea to charges of felony jail escape, criminal attempt to manufacture meth, simple possession of drugs and drug paraphernalia.
• Donald Fults entered a not guilty plea to charges of aggravated assault and resisting arrest.
• Charles D. Merriman entered a not guilty plea to the charge of assault.
• David Vanatta entered a not guilty plea to charges of forgery and theft.
• Elizabeth Hunter entered a not guilty plea to charges of aggravated burglary and theft over $500.
• Paul McGee entered a not guilty plea to charges of forgery and theft.
• Ricky Albert Fults and Danny Hubert Johnson entered not guilty pleas to eight counts of theft.
• Jeffery Birdwell entered a not guilty plea to charges of aggravated burglary and theft over $1,000.
• Travis Partin and Shawn Partin entered not guilty pleas to charges of theft over $1,000.
• Robert Yates entered a not guilty plea to the charge of theft over $1,000.
• Frankie Pomales and Susan Harmon entered not guilty pleas to charges of aggravated burglary and theft over $500.