Nitro Man Sentenced To State Hospital

• {West Virginia}...Joel Marshall Turley, 57, of Nitro, appeared in Kanawha Circuit Court Monday after being charged with firing a rifle into his neighbor's house. Judge Charles King accepted the findings of physicians at Sharpe Hospital in Weston who say Turley is not competent to stand trial and not likely to regain competency in the near future. Assistant Prosecutor Maryclaire Akers told Judge King that Turley told those who were evaluating him that he thought his neighbors, Anthony Harrah and his family, were spirits of idolatry, lust, fornication and murder and were practicing witchcraft. Akers said Turley had visional hallucinations and thought he had radar that picked up their unholy conversations. King sentenced him to 50 years in the state hospital until further order of the court.