Schleicher County News

Hate mail from a polygamist sect makes West Texas lawmaker Harvey Hilderbran happy and proud.

Lead Prosecutor Eric Nichols will continue today offering further evidence and calling witnesses to testify in the sentencing phase of the trial of Allan Eugene Keate, a member of the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints found guilty Tuesday by a Schleicher County jury on a charge of sexual assault of a child.

The defense has rested in the West Texas trial of a polygamist group member accused of tying the knot with a 15-year-old girl.

Prospective jurors are escorted into the Memorial Building in Eldorado for the jury selection process in the trial of Allan Eugene Keate.

Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott made a surprise appearance at the sexual assault trial of a polygamist church member.

Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott made a surprise appearance Tuesday at the trial of a polygamist group member, to question potential jurors in the sexual assault case.

In a pre-trial hearing today, 51st District Judge Barbara Walther denied a state request to move the trial of Allan Eugene Keate from Schleicher County to Tom Green County.

Many Schleicher county residents will once be called to jury duty next month, as the 2nd FLDS man is facing trial for child sexual assault.

Convicted sex offender Raymond Merril Jessop smiled Tuesday on the way to the Schleicher County Jail from a makeshift courtroom where he'd just been sentenced to 10 years in prison.

A polygamist sect member arrested following last year's raid of a west Texas ranch was sentenced Tuesday to 10 years in prison for sexually assaulting an underage girl, authorities said.

A Schleicher County jury is deliberating what penalty to give FLDS member Raymond Merril Jessop.

A Schleicher County jury for the first time heard a DNA expert explain how she concluded that Raymond Merril Jessop is the father of a child born in 2005 to his alleged victim.

A former female member of the FLDS took the stand today as 38 year old Raymond Jessop is on trial for child sexual assault.

Prosecution defends DNA evidence in trial of polygamist sect member Submitted by SHNS on Mon, 11/02/2009 - 20:16 ELDORADO, Texas - A DNA expert did the math to show jurors Monday that altering calculations to determine paternity would barely change results of tests indicating polygamist sect member Raymond Merril Jessop fathered a child with a ...

" The Texas AgriLife Extension Service offices of Schleicher and Sutton counties will conduct a public continuing education unit training beginning at 8:30 a.m. Nov.

Prospective jurors, including women from the Yearning for Zion Ranch, arrive for the first day of jury selection in the trial of Raymond Jessop Monday.

The first criminal trial stemming from the massive state raid on a polygamist group's ranch last year in West Texas came to an abrupt halt Thursday.

A 38-year-old man from a polygamist sect sexually assaulted a teenager less than half his age at the Yearning For Zion Ranch, a prosecutor charged Wednesday to open the first criminal trial since the ranch was raided.

Opening arguments begin today in the trial of Raymond Merril Jessop, who is charged with sexual assault of a child for raping an underage girl who was one of his nine 'wives,' 1200 WOAI's Michael Board reports from Eldorado.

To Roger Caouette, the idea that the glass bottles people leave out for recycling end up being buried as part of a roadbed doesn't make much sense.