Almost a dozen defendants charged with various felony offenses in Ohio County pleaded innocent before Circuit Judge David Sims and saw their trial dates set Monday.

Among the 15 grand jury indictments reviewed Monday, 11 people were arraigned, including Brandon James Settle, charged with attempted murder in connection with a June 20 incident in the Short Creek area. Settle allegedly tried to kill a woman with a sledgehammer, and also faces a malicious assault charge.

Sims on Monday approved a motion for a forensic psychiatric and neurological examination of Settle to determine criminal responsibility. An earlier psychological exam stated Settle was competent to stand trial.

Maurice Mosby and Maranda Burch were charged after police pulled them over Aug. 15, allegedly for speeding in Carey, Ohio. Police later discovered other pending charges, and also charged them with a robbery that occurred earlier that day at the Knights Inn on Main Street in Wheeling. Both were arraigned Monday, Mosby on first-degree robbery, kidnapping and malicious assault charges, and Burch on first-degree robbery and kidnapping charges. Their trials are set for 9 a.m. Jan. 4.

Amanda Humes and her father, Willard Humes, were arraigned Monday on three charges each of gross child neglect creating a substantial risk of death or serious bodily injury. That’s one count for each of Amanda Humes’ three biological children who were ages 2, 3 and 5 in March when Child Protective Services and the Ohio County Sheriff’s Department visited their Peters Run Road home and allegedly found the children living in filth with various health problems. Willard Humes is the children’s grandfather, who lived with them. The Humeses’ trials are set for 9 a.m. Dec. 5.

Three of the defendants that were not arraigned had their indictments still sealed, because the defendants had either not been located or had not yet been arrested.

However, another defendant, Isaiah Alfonso Hall-Williams, who is charged with felony malicious assault, didn’t show up to court as ordered, so an arrest warrant was issued Monday on a charge of failure to appear in court. His bond has been revoked, and once arrested he will be sent to the West Virginia Northern Regional Jail until a circuit judge is available, the warrant states.

According to Hall-Williams’ indictment, on March 23, he allegedly beat a woman on “the head and other parts of her body.”

Jason Lee Petrock of Vanderbilt, Pa., was indicted on felony counts of strangulation and domestic battery. The charges are from an Aug. 11 incident in which he allegedly choked a woman he lived with at a location near Edgington Lane, the indictment states. He allegedly also punched her, causing physical pain and injury, it states.

In an unanticipated occurrence during docket day, a defendant’s name was left off the indictment that was submitted to Sims. Instead of announcing the indictment of James Miller, also known as “Pooh Bear,” who was seated before him, Sims read, “The State vs. John Doe, aka ‘Pooh Bear,'” quickly questioning whether the grand jury had known the identity of the defendant.

“This is not legitimate,” he said, concerned that grand jury members “did not know (the defendant’s) name.”

Miller seemed agitated, saying, “That’s terrible,” quietly as he was led from his seat in front of the judge. Miller’s arraignment has been rescheduled for 2:15 p.m. Friday, according to Sims’ office. He faces four counts of delivery of a schedule II controlled substance.

Miller allegedly delivered cocaine to confidential informants of the Ohio Valley Drug Task Force on each day from July 29 to Aug. 3, each delivery in exchange for $50, according to a criminal complaint. The alleged deliveries occurred in the area of Pike Street. His trial is set for Nov. 17.

Others indicted by the grand jury will be arraigned before Circuit Judge James Mazzone at 10 a.m. Thursday, according to a press release from Ohio County Prosecuting Attorney Scott R. Smith. The grand jury indicted a total of 31 people, but only 20 were listed because the others either had not been arrested or could not be located.