By Barry Porterfield
Staff Writer
May 15, 2008 06:08 pm
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Two Pauls Valley area men are now facing criminal charges of maiming after they were accused of assaulting a fellow inmate who shared a cell with them in a county facility here.
Both Michael Ray Stubblefield, 29, of PV and Brendon Baker, 25, Stratford, are charged with fighting a 50-year-old inmate during an altercation this past weekend.
The felony maiming charges filed Tuesday in Garvin County District Court formally accused the two men with breaking the other inmate’s left arm in four different places between his shoulder and elbow.
A report filed by county deputies show the man’s injuries came at some point late Saturday night.
The injured man was escorted from a Garvin County jail cell complaining of pain from the broken arm.
“(The inmate) advised me that the heavy set guy and the skinny tall guy in the cell with him had started a fight with him and broke his left arm,” Deputy Jeff Poteet stated in the report.
Nothing was disclosed about the circumstances that led to the fight.
After the inmate was taken to Pauls Valley General Hospital it was determined with x-rays that his arm was indeed broken.
Hospital officials indicated it appeared the breaks were in different directions and locations, the report shows.
After the inmate was taken back to the sheriff’s department he gave a formal statement and proceeded to identify his assailants from a photo lineup.
Officials indicated Baker was the first to be picked out followed by Stubblefield.
For the safety of the injured inmate he was then released on a medical recognizance bond.
As for Stubblefield and Baker, both were handed additional $30,000 bonds when they made their initial appearances on the new charges.
Court records show Stubblefield had been in the county jail since March on a drug possession charge, while Baker was incarcerated April 21 on the accusation he violated his probation from a 2006 drug related conviction in Garvin County.
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