Escape attempt gets Commers 120 days
A short run from the law last spring will cost a Dechard man 120 days in jail.
The defendant, Robert Commers, 39, entered a guilty plea recently before Circuit Court Judge Charles Haston to the charge of misdemeanor escape. He was directed to serve 120 days of an 11-month, 29-day sentence.
The charges were brought after Commers jumped into an awaiting vehicle as he was being led out of the courthouse in handcuffs along with several other prisoners last April. He had just been sentenced to 140 days in jail for violation of probation.
He then led lawmen on a high-speed pursuit through town, driving his car in handcuffs, until he made a wrong turn onto a dead end street. He was captured following a short foot pursuit.
The 120-day sentence must be served in addition to the 140 days Commers already faced in General Sessions Court on the prior violation of probation charges.
In other unrelated circuit court action recently:
• Gabriel Womack was directed to serve 240 days of a five-year sentence and pay $2,000 plus costs for manufacture of meth.
• Anthony Lance Vogel was instructed to serve 180 days of a five-year sentence, pay $2,250 and put his photo in the newspaper for manufacture of meth and violation of habitual traffic offender status.
• Becky Ann Smith was given an 11-month, 29-day probationary sentence for simple assault.
• Danny Martin must serve 48 hours of an 11-29 sentence, pay $350 plus costs and forfeit his driver’s license for one year for DUI. He is not the Danny Martin from Union Planters Bank.