After sitting in a jail cell for nearly eight months, a Martinsville man has walked away free from three counts of malicious wounding. The prosecution dismissed one charge of malicious wounding against Franky Uribe Merchan, 29, at the beginning of the trial on Tuesday, and it took about 15 minutes of deliberation by the jury to acquit him of the two additional malicious wounding charges in Henry Circuit Court.
While Martinsville-Henry County s Piedmont Adult Drug Treatment Court (PADTC) continues to grow and expand, a group gathered Thursday afternoon to celebrate its third graduate.
A murder case in Henry County involving four people, and resulting in the shooting death of Pamela Morse, came to a close in Henry County Circuit Court on Tuesday.
Kenneth Edward Gearhart, who is serving a 95-year sentence in Keen Mountain Correctional Facility in Buchanan for drug-related convictions, was charged on Monday for the murder of Everett Odell Bivins Jr.