A Caddo Mills man, once charged with murder in connection with a shooting death in Greenville, has been declared insane and found not guilty of indictments alleging he robbed an elderly man of donuts and threatened to kill a police officer.
Jury selection had been scheduled Monday in the 196th District Court for Michael Anthony Polk, 54, who had pleaded not guilty to one count of aggravated robbery and one count of retaliation against a peace officer.
Polk’s defense attorney had sought to have his client declared incompetent to stand trial.
The ruling of not guilty by reason of insanity on both charges came during a hearing in the court Tuesday morning.
According to the aggravated robbery indictment, Polk was alleged to have threatened an elderly Caddo Mills man on Dec. 12, 2009.
Officers from the Caddo Mills Police Department, Hunt County Sheriff’s Office, Greenville Police Department and Texas Department of Public Safety responded that morning after Polk was said to threatened to hurt the victim, who was outside of a doughnut store in Caddo Mills, unless he gave Polk some donuts.
Polk was reported to have then climbed to the top of his residence, where he stripped naked before surrendering peacefully. Inside of the residence, officers allegedly discovered amounts of crack cocaine and drug paraphernalia.
The retaliation indictment alleged Polk threatened a Caddo Mills Police Department officer with assault and murder on Feb. 14, 2010.
Polk was facing maximum sentence upon conviction of up to life in prison for the alleged robbery and 20 years in prison for a conviction on the retaliation indictment.
Polk was indicted by the Hunt County grand jury in May 1999 on one count of murder, in connection with the Oct. 1, 1996 shooting death of Raymond Edwards of Greenville.
Witnesses said Polk and Edwards scuffled in the 2900 block of Bourland Street before Polk shot Edwards in the head.
Polk then called the Greenville Police Department from his residence at the time in the 2800 block of Bourland, where officers found he had also been wounded.
The murder indictment was dismissed on Aug. 8, 2002, after then-District Attorney F. Thomas explained Polk was in federal custody on an unrelated charge and was not expected to be released until 2006.
The murder indictment was never re-filed.
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