Oxford College of Emory University has renamed Language Hall after Judge Horace J. Johnson Jr., an alumnus who became the first Black Superior Court judge in the Alcovy Judicial Circuit, and established a scholarship endowment in his honor.
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Jury trials to resume in Newton after year-long delay The Judge Horace J. Johnson Jr. Judicial Center - photo by Courtesy of Newton County
COVINGTON, Ga. The first jury trials in more than a year in Newton County are set to begin next week.
Juries are set to be chosen under COVID-19 protocols for social distancing and mask-wearing beginning Monday, April 12, in the Alcovy Judicial Circuit.
District Attorney Randy McGinley said cases awaiting jury trials in Newton County courts will be allowed to proceed after being postponed since March 2020.
Georgia Supreme Court Chief Justice Harold Melton issued an order March 9 allowing jury trials to resume in Georgia.
Cherokee County woman sentenced to life in prison for 2017 Covington murder Rita Dugar - photo by Special to The Covington News
COVINGTON, Ga. A Cherokee County woman was sentenced to life in prison after her Wednesday conviction on charges from the 2017 shooting murder of a man in Covington.
Rita Mary Dugar, 30, of Canton, was convicted in Newton County Superior Court on one count of Felony Murder in the Feb. 28, 2017, shooting death of Jon Trevor Townley, 24, outside a Newton County residence.
A press release at the time stated that Newton County sheriff’s deputies responded to a report of a person shot at 105 Sunflower Lane in Covington around 2 a.m. They found Townley in the front yard bleeding from an apparent gunshot wound.
Judge denies bond for Newton woman accused in mother’s 2019 murder Carly Suzanne Walden
COVINGTON, Ga. A judge has denied bond for a 36-year-old woman accused of murder in the April 2019 shooting death of her mother in Covington.
Superior Court Judge Cheveda McCamy denied setting a bond for Carly Suzanne Walden today, Dec. 10.
Assistant District Attorney Jillian Hall asked McCamy not to set a bond that would allow her to be released from jail while she awaited trial.
“We felt that she was a danger to the community if she was let out on bond,” Hall said.
Walden was charged after her mother, Andrea Walker, 57, was found dead from a gunshot wound in the home they shared on Alcovy Way in Covington on April 28, 2019.