HUTCHINSON – One of two men suspected of beating a Reno County Correctional Facility inmate so severely that he was taken to a Wichita hospital was arraigned in that case and one other on Monday.

William and Antoine Alexander are both charged by the state with a single count of aggravated battery.

They are accused of beating 30-year-old Darrell Beachy on September 26 in one of the pods at the new Reno County Jail.

Beachy was taken by air-ambulance to a Wichita hospital for treatment.

William Alexander entered a not guilty plea in that case and another where he is charged with two alternate counts of felony theft.

In that case, the state accuses him of stealing a Samsung Galaxy tablet, a Nextbook tablet as well as other miscellaneous items on October 23.

The two cases will now be placed on a jury trial docket in front of Judge Trish Rose.

William Alexander was in custody for a failure to appear charge out of Salina.