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Candidate for county executive given jail time
Orr serves 39 days for three charges
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A county executive candidate has been sentenced to more than a month in jail for criminal trespass.The candidate and defendant, Billy Daniel Orr, 60, entered a guilty plea before General Sessions Judge Bill Locke to charges of criminal trespass, passing a worthless check, and violation of probation. He was ordered to serve 39 days of an 11-month, 29-day sentence and was directed to have a mental exam and follow the recommendations of mental health experts. He is also not to have any contact with the victim in the case.His sentence comes for his alleged repeated trespasses on land he has leased to another man for nursery growing purposes.