A jury picked from Warren County to hear evidence and deliberate the fate of Jimell Horton found the Enfield man not guilty of all counts against him in the 2013 shooting deaths of Chris Harrison and Monte Hines.
A state witness and defendant in the Jimmel Horton murder trial claims Horton sent him letters while in the Halifax County Jail telling him to say nothing about the case.
The state began laying its groundwork, introducing 21 pieces of pictorial evidence, in its effort to win a conviction against Jimmel Horton.
Warren County jurors will be transported to Halifax County to hear evidence in the murder trial of Jimmel Horton, whose original case ended in a mistrial last October.
Three men wanted in a Halifax County jury tampering case have surrendered, the sheriff's office confirmed this afternoon.
Investigation has uncovered jury tampering in the October, 2015, murder trial of Jimmel Horton.
The man murdered in Scotland Neck Tuesday was a potential state's witness in a case where a mistrial was declared in October.
A judge today declared a mistrial in the murder trial of Jimmel Horton.
The state intends to prove Jimmel Horton not only killed Chris Harrison in a 2013 home invasion on Zoo Road South but also killed Monte Hines, who was thought by Halifax County Sheriff's Office investigators to be an assailant in the deadly robbery attempt.
A third person has been arrested in the October 27 murder of Chris Harrison and is also charged in the shooting death of the alleged co-conspirator in the case, Monte Hines.
