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Homeless man attacks mother, son
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An elderly homeless man has been sentenced to a month in jail for attacking a mother and her son with his cane.The man, James Robert Goff, 74, was sentenced by General Sessions Judge Bill Locke to serve 30 days of an 11-month, 29-day sentence and to undergo a drug and alcohol assessment. He is to have no contact with his victims once he is out of jail on probation.His jail time comes after police were dispatched to apartments on Oriole Drive to answer a disturbance. When they arrived they found the battered and bruised victims in the parking lot.“They said Mr. Goff had come to their apartment and was drunk,” McMinnville policeman Austin Wortman said in his warrant.