A pretrial hearing for five Jasper residents arrested following the infamous March 2 brawl at city hall, originally scheduled for Tuesday in Jasper County Circuit Court, has been postponed until Sept. 5, according to court records
Alderman and former mayor Jim McCorkle, 63, his wife Marie, 64, Jacob Good, 33, Rick Good, 55, and Jerry Ogle, 61, all face charges of third degree assault, misdemeanors, but the five rejected a plea agreement and brought in high-powered attorney Dee Wampler III of Springfield to represent them.
The brawl sent the mayor at the time, John Rodebush, and Mrs. McCorkle to the hospital with minor injuries. It came at a time when a faction led by McCorkle was at odds with a number of actions taken by the mayor, including suspending Ogle as fire chief and either firing or forcing more than 30 city workers to leave during his brief tenure. After McCorkle and another vocal opponent, Vic Crazybear were elected to the council in April ensuring that Rodebush would not get his way in divided votes as he had in the past, Rodebush resigned.
2 comments:
Randy I can not figure out if you think this is crazy or funny. I was in that council meeting that night. I seen what happened. And for any man to think he can push, or hit a woman is a worm. And that is the nicest thing I can think of to say. Its wrong. I for anyone to care enough to stop that kind of trash is OK in my book.
I was looking at it more as something unusual and unfortunate happening at a public meeting. The Brawl at the Hall reference is only me playing with words. I am not taking it lightly, however.
Post a Comment