Dixon County judge handles wide arraignment docket; three pleas result in suspended sentences and revocation

Judge David D. Wolfe presided over an extended arraignment session in Dixon County Circuit Court in Charlotte, where the court handled dozens of arraignments, appointed counsel for indigent defendants and set recurring status dates — most commonly May 19 — for grand-jury cases.

The docket produced several formal dispositions: the court accepted a no-contest plea from Daryl Eugene Hobbs and imposed an eight-year Tennessee Department of Correction (TDOC) sentence suspended to probation with a $1,000 fine; it accepted a no-contest plea from Paul Shane Garrett to an amended count of child neglect with a four‑year TDOC sentence suspended to probation and a no‑contact condition; and it revoked community‑corrections supervision for Robert Francis Skarsinski Jr., ordering him to serve his sentence with credit for time served. These outcomes were announced directly from the courtroom record during arraignment and plea colloquies.

Why it matters: the plea and revocation decisions change the supervision status of three local defendants and remove pretrial monitoring in at least one case, while the appointment of counsel and the scheduling pattern show how the court is processing a heavy grand‑jury docket.

Most of the defendants arraigned on indictments were given future status dates for the court to review defense counsel and case progress. Judge Wolfe repeatedly told…