Man gets 20 years for assault

A man convicted last month of aggravated assault with a firearm in Jackson County was sentenced to 20 years in prison for that offense Tuesday.
But that won’t spell the end of Jarvise Antwan Baker’s dealings with the court system. The Bascom man now awaits a manslaughter trial in an unrelated incident, and yet another trial on a separate grand theft charge.
Baker’s sentencing Tuesday resulted from an incident in which he was convicted of firing a shot at a victim in Malone on Dec. 11, 2007.
His manslaughter trial is set to begin at the end of April.
In that case, he is accused of shooting Joshua Smith to death on Panda Lane in Bascom in December 2007.
No firm trial date has been set on the grand theft charge. In that case, he is accused of stealing car parts from a junk yard.
He and another man were apprehended after a theft report on McChapel Road last year. Authorities at the time said a third man was being sought in the case, and that Baker and the two other suspects were suspected of additional, similar thefts.