Show AMOTT MURDER TRIAL LAUNCHED I I WETUMPKA Ala Oct 23 28 s UP UPI UPI- Judge Arthur Glover overruled d today today toay to- to day ay a motion by defense defenso counsel to o withdraw temporarily a plea of ot not ot guilty in order to attack the validity of ot an Indictment charging Frank E. E Green of Montgomery with the death duth of ot Wesley D D. Amott federal resettlement Investigator Judge Glover Clover overruled overrule on the ground the motion came too late I 1 assume you meant to attack the tho le method by which the alleged ged slaying laying took place Judge Glover asked James Gibson of or defense I counseL Gibson admitted that this was his hb intention The trial In Elmore county cIrcuit circuit cir do- cult court was late starting At 30 a. a m. m more than an hour after atter the he scheduled opening the jury selected selected se- se had not entered the box The Rev J. J M. M O Green Creen of ot Salem Baptist church at Mount Pinson Ala Ala- brother of the defendant sat satt at t the counsel table by his brothers brother's as the trial started C e. R. R Amott Indianapolis brother ot of f the tho slain resettlement worker was present as a state witness Wesley Vesley Wes Wes- ley ey Amott a native of ot Salt Lake City was a a. former Mormon Jormon nits nits- At the time of Amott's Amott slaying early arly last month Green was on probation from a robbery sentence D. D T C U. th It at iiI Washington n w. w au v or es said aid today adding that he was reporting re reporting reporting re- re porting monthly under parole to the United States probation officer at Montgomery Approximately 30 state witnesses have lave been summoned to build up the he prosecutions prosecution's contention that Green caught a ride with Amott when the latter left Birmingham on September 1 and later killed him and dumped the body in a cotton field at the tho edge of ot a cotton road |