Boykin plead not guilty to stalking 06-24-08

TOMMY BOYKIN OF RULEVILLE, A FORMER RULEVILLE POLICE OFFICER AND REVEREND STOOD BEFORE SUNFLOWER COUNTY JUSTICE COURT JUDGE STAFFORD SHURDON AND PLED NOT GUILTY TO CHARGES OF STALKING. YESTERDAY A REQUEST WAS MADE BY JUSTICE COURT TO TAKE MR. TOMMY BOYKIN INTO CUSTODY IN REFERENCE TO QUESTION OF VIOLATION OF A RESTRAINING ORDER THAT WAS ISSUED AGAINST HIM. BOYKIN IS ACCUSED OF STALKING, STACY BLACK, WHO LIVES IN RULEVILLE. HE KNEW ABOUT THE RESTRAINING ORDER AND HE VIOLATED THE RESTRAINING ORDER. INTERESTINGLY ENOUGH, SOURCES TELL CHANNEL SIX NEWS THAT AT TODAY'S HEARING. BOYKIN, WHO SERVED WITH THE RULEVILLE POLICE DEPARTMENT, TOLD THE COURT HE DID NOT UNDERSTAND WHAT THAT RESTRAINING ORDER MEANT. THE JUSTICE COURT ISSUED MR. BOYKIN A STERN WARNING THAT ANY TYPE OF CONTACT HE WOULD BE IN THE COUNTY JAIL UNTIL HIS HEARING DATE. MEANWHILE, MS. BLACK TELLS CHANNEL SIX, SHE WANTED MORE PROTECTION, NOT JUST A WARNING. she told us, "AS A WOMAN IT MAKES ME FEEL SCARED. CAUSE HE POPS UP AT MY HOUSE, MY MOMMA'S HOUSE, ALL DURING A RESTRAINING ORDER. WHAT'S TO SAY ABOUT WHAT HE'LL DO NEXT?" THE RULEVILLE POLICE DEPT DECLINED TO COMMENT ON THEIR FORMER EMPLOYEE.