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Several developments transpired last week in Jen nings Circuit Court in the up coming murder trials of Arkansas residents Lyndale Ivy, 22, and Teresa West, 17, who are accused of the double murder of E. J. and Faye Shasteen last Jan. 30 in their home northeast of Scipio. Ripley Circuit Court Judge Henry Pictor was appointed Thursday by Jennings Circuit Court Judge Joseph Carson as the special judge for the trail of Miss West. Mike Rogers, Miss West’s attorney, was granted a motion for a change of judge after Harold Webster, Ivy’s attorney, was granted a motion for separate trials for the two. Judge Carson, who will still be the presiding judge at Ivy’s trial, set his arraignment for June 21 in Jennings Circuit Court at Vernon. No arraignment date has been set yet for Miss West as a hearing still must be held on an objection made by Miss West’s attorney to a motion by Jen nings Prosecutor Norman Phillips to file amended charges against Miss West. Both of the accused, who were arrested in Arkansas and allegedly linked to the deaths of the A.A. 1, Westport residents through cooperative efforts of Indiana and Arkansas authorities, remain in Jennings County jail at Vernon. Meanwhile, negotiations are reported underway for the testimony at the murder trial of Jimmy Wayne Smith, 24-year old Columbus resident who is charged in Bartholomew Superior Court with assisting a criminal. Smith, who is free on $4,000 bond, allegedly gave food and shelter to Ivy and Miss West on the night the murders were committed. Police said Smith knew about the murders within hours after they occurred when Ivy confessed the crime to him and showed him the weapon he allegedly used to kill the Shasteens. The Jennings County prosecutor would not say whether he expected Smith to be a prosecution witness at the trials. However, Bartholomew County Prosecutor Richard Donnelly, who is assisting in the case, admitted negotiations are underway for his appearance, adding that Smith’s attorneys were being ‘“‘very practical” about the matter.
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Greensburg Daily News
Greensburg, Indiana, US
Mon, Jun 05, 1978
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