Two notable murder cases were continued during this session of Lowndes County Circuit Court.
The murder trial of Rennie Gibbs, of 300 S. Lehmberg Road in Columbus, was continued to Aug. 16. The murder trial of Sylvester N. Johnson, of 1407 Cloverdale Place in Aberdeen, was continued to Aug. 30.
Gibbs faces murder charges after a cocaine overdose caused her child to be stillborn in December 2006. Although a minor at the time of her arrest, Gibbs is being tried as an adult under the state”s depraved heart murder law.
District Attorney Forrest Allgood said the court issued the continuance to determine if cocaine use caused the baby”s death.
Johnson is accused of killing Clarence “Big C” Trimble in October 2009. He was arrested in Aberdeen the same month; authorities believe he killed Trimble at his club, Big C”s Game Room on Stinson Creek Road in Lowndes County, during a robbery.
Allgood said the continuance in the Trimble case isn”t unusual. Capital murder cases typically take a year or longer to get to trial, he said.
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