POMEROY — The process of selecting a jury in the death penalty murder trial of Charles S. Williams will begin later this month with the selection of a jury pool.

Judge Fred W. Crow has ordered the random selection of 250 names from the voter registration rolls as potential jurors in the trial, which is scheduled to begin July 7.

Jury Commissioners Janice Young and Christopher Wolfe will draw the names at 8:30 a.m. on June 18 at the Board of Elections office. The selection will be followed by the development of a jury questionnaire and jury instructions to precede the trial.

Williams, 39, is in the Southeastern Regional Jail in Nelsonville on charges relating to the alleged robbery and strangulation death of an elderly Tuppers Plains woman, Doris Jackson, in February. The Meigs County grand jury returned a 10-count indictment, including two counts of murder, three counts of kidnapping, aggravated robbery, aggravated burglary, tampering with evidence, and grand theft of a motor vehicle.

Williams was scheduled to undergo a psychiatric evaluation this month at Shawnee Forensic Center in Portsmouth. His defense attorneys, Charles Knight of Pomeroy and William Eachus of Gallipolis, have indicated their client might not be competent to stand trial, and reserved a plea of not guilty by reason of insanity at his arraignment in March.

Results of that evaluation are due in two weeks.

According to the defendant’s motion for psychiatric evaluation, Williams has been hospitalized several times for mental illness and served a year in prison for threatening the life of President George H.W. Bush in the early 1990s.

A questionnaire to be mailed to prospective jurors, once they have been selected, is one matter to be discussed at the next hearing in the Williams case, scheduled for June 22.

A motion for a change of venue in the case filed by Williams’ defense counsel is still pending in the court, and could be determined at the same hearing.