GREENVILLE —
Testimony is scheduled to continue Monday in the trial of a local man charged with murder involving a 2011 shooting death in Greenville.
Prosecutors are still presenting their case against Antonio Derrance Fletcher. The trial in the 354th District Court began Tuesday, but no testimony was conducted Friday as Judge Richard A. Beacom was scheduled to hold court in Rains County.
Fletcher, 26, has pleaded not guilty to one count of murder, in connection with the death Javon Newman.
Fletcher and Devin Eugene Royal, both of Greenville, were taken into custody on the evening of July 4, 2011 in Dallas.
Royal was previously convicted of Newman’s murder and was sentenced to life in prison.
Officers responded to a call of shots being fired at a local apartment complex early on the morning of July 2, 2011 and found that Newman had been shot multiple times. Individuals who witnessed the shooting identified Fletcher and Royal as suspects in the offense.
Fletcher pleaded guilty in December 2004 to a charge of aggravated robbery with a deadly weapon and was sentenced to six years in the Texas Department of Criminal Justice-Institutional Division. Fletcher was indicted on the charge in November 2003 and was alleged in the indictment to have beaten a male victim with PVC pipe and bricks while in the course of stealing money on July 5, 2003.
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