March Court Report

Judge Sets Trial Date In 2012 Shooting Death

Staff Report

COFFEEVILLE – After multiple continuances the trial date is set for April 13 in the 2012 homicide in which Jermaine Crump is accused of gunning down his sister-in-law. Circuit Judge Smith Murphey set the April date during the March term of Circuit Court in Coffeeville last month.

            Jermaine Crump has been incarcerated since November, 2012, after allegedly shooting Crystal Crump multiple times at a residence outside Coffeeville on County Road 436. The victim was married to Jermaine Crump’s brother and was 26 at the time of her death. There were three children and an adult, in addition to the shooter, in the residence during the shooting, according to law enforcement.

            The case had been originally scheduled for March 2014, but has been continued multiple times as the defendant underwent a metal evaluation.

            Sentences handed down by Judge Murphey during the Coffeeville term of court held March 16-18 included:

            • Johnathan Smith was sentenced to serve eight years in the Mississippi Department of Corrections (MDOC) for fondling a child;

            • William Ken Jackson was sentenced to eight years, with eight years suspended, and three years probation for possession of methamphetamine;

            • Braxton Lloyd was sentenced 158 days to serve and four years 207 days probation for felony malicious mischief;

            • Quinton Ladell Gunn was sentenced 243 days to serve, five years probation for aggravated domestic violence;

            • Johnna Dakota Jenkins was sentenced to seven and one-half years to serve in MDOC for aggravated assault;

            • Cadarious Calvonta Crutcher was sentenced to five years in the Regimented Inmate Discipline Program for robbery; and

            • Keven Logan was sentenced five years in the MDOC for felony fleeing and five years probation for felony possession of a bowie knife.

            Multiple cases were also continued during the March term of court including the case of a father and son charged with receiving stolen property after they were charged in 2013.

            Larry Joe Lindley and Kurt Lindley were each charged in August, 2013, after the sheriff’s department recovered four stolen Arctic Cats UTVs valued at almost $50,000. A grand jury indicted the pair in early 2014.

            Other cases continued include:

            • Anthony Wade Daughtery, petition to enter plea filed, case continued for sentencing;

            • Raymond Burkhead, Jr., case continued for plea and sentencing;

            • Jesse Winter, case continued;

            • Bryan Winter, case continued;

            • Melinda Marshelle Purnell, case continued;

            • Fletcher White, Jr., case continued;

            • Ricardo Hankins, petition to enter plea filed, case continued for sentencing;

            • Joshua Hines, petition to enter plea filed, case continued for sentencing.

 

Attorney General Drops Charges On Coffeeville Woman

COFFEEVILLE – The Attorney General has agreed not to prosecute a Coffeeville woman indicted for insurance fraud. In a court order signed March 23 the State of Mississippi filed a motion, Order To Nolle Prosequi, agreeing not to prosecute Jennifer Gail Franklin. The order was signed by Circuit Judge Smith Murphey in the First Judicial District.

            The action follows a press release sent out statewide by Attorney General Jim Hood on February 10 reporting Franklin had been arrested by local authorities after a grand jury indicted her on one count of insurance fraud and a second count of wire fraud.