A trial date has been set for Paul Eugene Snow, the Macon County man accused of killing his mother and sister in November 2016, District Attorney Ashley Hornsby Welch said.
Jury selection for Snow’s trial is set for the Oct. 26 term of Macon County Superior Court. The 53-year-old faces two counts of first-degree murder. If convicted, Snow would spend the remainder of his life in prison.
On Monday, June 1 deputies served Snow with a separate, but related, grand-jury indictment for arson. That case is on Macon County’s court calendar for July 6. At that time, Chief Resident Superior Court Judge Bill Coward also intends, in advance of Snow’s murder trial, to accept and review pre-trial motions.
Snow’s attorney, Tony Dalton of Brevard, told Coward in court he would represent his client on both the murder and arson charges.
Prosecutors say the suspect shot his mother, Sunshine Snow, and his sister, Jacquetta Snow, then set fire to their Creekside home in the Cartoogechaye community. Investigators discovered the women’s bodies after firefighters extinguished the fire.