By Emily D. Williams
A Batesville man had a preliminary hearing date continued for charges of possession of a firearm by a convicted felon during Batesville Municipal Court held Wednesday.

Jeffery S. Young, 143 Ford Rd., Batesville, has a MDOC hold and additional charges of possession of controlled substance with intent. 

Officer Charlie Tindall explained to Judge Bill McKenzie that the drug charges were all from the same incident on December 21 but they didn’t get the warrant on the drug charges until the morning of court because they were awaiting results from the crime lab.

Young was represented by Attorneys Valorri Jones and Winston James Johnson III from The Cochran Firm of Jackson.

Quendarius B. Robinson, 105 Browning, Batesville, was referred to the grand jury for grand larceny. He was fined $443 after entering a guilty plea to simple possession of controlled substance (three counts).

Stacey Burdette, 101 Clinton, Batesville, had a case dismissed for false pretenses after the affiant, Mary Burdette failed to appear to prosecute.

James M. Wilbourn, 102 Wilbourn St., Batesville, entered a guilty plea to trespassing. He was given time served for the 10 days in jail he served while awaiting trial.

Deon Pryor, 218-E Broadway, Batesville, entered a guilty plea to domestic violence-simple assault. He was fined $417.

Michael D. Wright, 105-B Patton Lane, Batesville, had a case for domestic violence-simple assault dismissed after the affiant, Brittany Hankins failed to appear to prosecute.

Wright had old fines of $647 that have been due since December 2014. The judge told Wright to have the fines paid in full in 30 days or serve 90 days in jail.

Jamarcus Hamilton, 106 Goodhaven, Batesville, entered a guilty plea to shoplifting two Xbox controllers and car charger worth $69.80 from Wal-Mart. He was fined $1,146.

Billy Ed Raybon Jr., 575-A Hawkins Rd., Courtland, entered the city’s work program for 21 days in lieu of paying $1,146 for shoplifting Sony earbuds worth $28.88 from Wal-Mart.

James Hicks, 466 Pearidge Rd., Grenada, failed to appear to answer shoplifing charges for the third time. A warrant was issued for his arrest.

Jason F. Milam, 165 Milam Rd., Batesville, entered a guilty plea to shoplifting a dog leash, dog toy and charger worth $32.29 from Wal-mart. He was fined $1,146.

Martha M. Walls, 104 Autumn, Batesville, entered a non adjudication plea to DUI and careless driving. She was fined $250, enrolled in MASEP, driving school and had license suspended for 90 days.

Armistead Creasy, 401 Willow Oaks, Roanoke, Va., entered a non adjudication plea to DUI-other, following too close and possession of paraphernalia. He was fined $1,302 and given a year of non supervised probation along with entering MASEP.

He was represented by Attorney S. Alford.

Travius Butler, 335 Shamrock Apt. E-3, Batesville, entered the city’s work program for 13 days in lieu of paying $743 in old fines that have been due since May 2014.

Quincy Harris, 202-B Lester, Batesville, was sentenced to 90 days in jail after he failed to pay his fines of $1,647 or complete assigned number of days on the city’s work program.

Harris told the judge the first day of working on the CWP he didn’t realize he drank the supervisor’s juice.

“There was a cooler. Everyone else was sticking their hands in it,” Harris said.
“You knew it wasn’t yours,” McKenzie said.

McKenzie gave Harris credit for the two weeks he spent in jail awaiting trial.