Nine persons appeared before Judge Charles Steele Wednesday in Common Pleas Court. Six persons changed their pleas to guilty and three persons were sentenced.
Change of pleas

Ralph Moorman, 41, Convoy, entered a plea of guilty on a Prosecutor’s Bill of Information filed by Assistant County Prosecutor Eva Yarger.  The Bill of Information contained two charges of rape, each a felony of the first degree.

The court accepted his pleas and ordered a pre-sentence investigation and set sentencing for Dec. 19.

Previous pending charges against him were dismissed for his plea to this Bill of Information.

Taylor Agler, 20, Van Wert, changed her plea to guilty to two charges of trafficking drugs, each a felony of the fifth degree.

The court ordered a pre-sentence investigation and will set sentencing in about six weeks.