Witnesses have testified in the capital murder trial of a man charged in the 1997 deaths of an Ashdown couple that the deceased were methamphetamine users.
Timothy Lamont Howard is on trial for the second time in the deaths of Brian and Shannon Day and for attempted murder of the couple's 7-month-old son. Prosecutors have said Timothy Lamont Howard killed Shannon Day because she thought she was pregnant with Howard's child and that he killed Brian Day for money.
His convictions were overturned in 2013 because of new evidence the defense didn't have in his first trial.
The Texarkana Gazette reports the witnesses testified Monday that Brian Day sold and used meth while his wife, Shannon Day, likely had suffered from meth-induced paranoia and delusions.