There are a number of active appeals cases before State Superior Count involving Indiana County defendants. Some of them are cases that have been in the court system for many years, while others are more recent.
One of the cases which has faded from the spotlight is the case of 50-year-old Woodrow Hicks Jr. of Indiana. He is serving a sentence of up to five years in prison plus five years probation for charges related to his attempt to meet a 15-year-old girl for sex in the parking lot at the Southtowne Plaza in White Township in 2012. When he arrived for the rendezvous, state police were waiting for him and he tried to flee but was caught.
Already turned down once by the Supreme Court, Hicks is appealing again to Superior Court, and yesterday the court received the Indiana County Court record and the judge’s opinion in the case. The court then set a briefing schedule, with Hicks ordered to submit his brief by May 20th.
Other cases currently before Superior Court include:
- The Jack Edmundson Jr. murder case. He was convicted of killing Tunnelton gun shop owner Frank Petro in 2013 and has a brief on his appeal due to the court by May 1st.
- The William Brown murder case. The Delaware County man was found guilty of murdering fellow SCI Pine Grove inmate Jayson Stewart of Arnold in 2010. Brown recently missed a deadline to file a brief before the court and has been given until Friday to file it or lose the right to appeal.
- The David Yingling murder case. He was found guilty of killing his housemate in Arcadia in a bullying case and leaving the body in its bed for days until police discovered it. The briefs and statements have been filed and the case is awaiting consideration by the court.
- The Charles Cook case. He is awaiting trial in Indiana County Court for the killing of Myrtle McGill at her home along South 6th Street in Indiana in 1992, but the case was halted last month for a prosecution appeal of the denial of some evidence by Judge William Martin.
