A trial scheduled to start this morning in the case of a 21-year-old Chattanooga man indicted on vehicular homicide charges was pushed to Wednesday after several jurors were excused.
Police say Braylon Davis, 21, struck the wall of a garage after running off South Germantown Road on December 3, 2013. The front-seat passenger, Taylor Lee Collins, 25, died from head injuries suffered in the crash.
Davis was scheduled to appear before Judge Barry Steelman until half of the jury panels were excused around 10 a.m., his attorney, Jay Underwood, said. A handful of those jurors filtered into Judge Tom Greenholtz’s courtroom for a first-degree murder and especially aggravated robbery trial.
After a grand jury indicted Davis in May 2014 on charges of vehicular homicide by intoxication, reckless endangerment, minor in possession of alcohol, and driving under the influence, he was booked into the county jail, where he remains on a $150,000 bond.
Underwood said his client will plead not guilty to the charges.