New trial date for SC v. Drotning

Atop the trial docket for the next term of Oconee General Sessions Court is South Carolina v. Drotning.  The prosecutor’s office plans to call for trial four charges against Jacob Daniel Drotning, Utica resident.  Drotning was arrested in 2014 on the charge of attempted murder of Catherine Cook.  He is accused of pouring gasoline onto Cook and setting her afire. Drotning also faces charges of arson second degree, criminal domestic violence high and aggravated nature, and malicious injury to property.  General Sessions Court is scheduled in Walhalla the week Monday through Friday, October 17-21.