Jury selection in the murder trail of Michael Shane Richardson continues today, and one may be picked by noon or later in the day, according to a Lowndes County Circuit Court spokesperson.
Sixteenth Circuit Judge James T. Kitchens is scheduled to hear the case of Richardson, 30, of 126 Matson Road, who admitted to the 2006 baseball-bat hitting and robbery of 57-year-old Harvey J. Evans.
Authorities report Evans died in January 2007 from injuries sustained from Richardson”s Sept. 19, 2006 baseball bat blow to the head.
Richardson turned himself in the day after the incident and confessed to Lowndes County sheriff”s investigators he robbed Evans at his 122 Matson Road home and hit him with a baseball bat.
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