By: Patti Weaver
(Stillwater, Okla.) — A convicted murderer serving a sentence of life in prison without the possibility of parole was charged Wednesday with aggravated assault and battery on a female guard at the Cimarron Correctional Facility in Cushing on March 31.
The correctional officer, who was punched in the face, received severe lacerations and a broken nose, according to the felony charge.
The accused inmate, William Kimble, 39, has been transferred from the private prison in Cushing to the Oklahoma State Penitentiary in McAlester, court records show.
Kimble was 19 and living in Fort Smith, Ark. when he was charged with first-degree murder in Leflore County, Ok. in 1999, court records show.
Kimble was convicted at 21 by a Leflore County jury and given a life without parole sentence in 2001 — which was affirmed by the Oklahoma Court of Criminal Appeals in 2002, court records show.
The maximum penalty for aggravated assault and battery on a corrections officer after a former felony conviction is life in prison, which Kimble was already serving for murder, court records show.
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