Charleston Men Plead Guilty To Malicious Wounding

{Charleston, West Virginia}...Greg Allen Burdette, 34, and Lance Michael Jefferson, 18, both of Charleston, have each pleaded guilty to one count of malicious wounding in the July beating of 40 year old Charles Bryant. At his plea hearing Monday, Burdette told Kanawha Circuit Judge Carrie Webster that he, Jefferson and Bryant, a homeless, wheelchair-bound man, had gotten into a fight, and he knocked Bryant out. According to a criminal complaint filed in Kanawha County Magistrate Court, Burdette accused Bryant of stealing his cigarettes while they were on the porch of an abandoned house on Bigley Avenue. Jefferson admitted to the charge in a separate hearing last week.