1/21/13 - The trial date has been adjourned again for a Genesee County couple charged with felony murder in the death of a homeless man whose body was found in 2010 along a rural Livingston County road. The case against 45-year-old Mitchell Judd Hall of Byron and 51-year-old Antoinette Bea Hix of Gaines has been adjourned several times now in the death of 71-year old Clarence Elijah Hines, the most latest coming on Friday when attorneys for the defendants requested additional time after prosecutors indicated they would file a motion requesting the jury hear testimony regarding Hix's psychological background. Their trial is now set for April. Police say the suspects left Hines at the side of Sober Road in Conway Township on April 11th, 2010. He was found dead there the following morning. Authorities say Hines died due to a combination of hypothermia and multiple blunt trauma injuries. Authorities say the couple decided to rid themselves of caring for Hines after he became incontinent and stopped eating. They had originally planned to leave him behind a business in Lansing, but fearing being caught on surveillance video, decided instead to drop him off on a rural dirt road. Hall and Hix are also charged with 1st and 2nd degree abuse of a vulnerable adult. (JM/JM)
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