A jury trial has been postponed to this summer for Robert Aragon, a Jerome man charged in Lincoln County with involuntary manslaughter in the Christmas Day death of his 11-year-old daughter.
The trial, scheduled to begin May 6, was reset Monday to July 7.
Fifth District Court Judge G. Richard Bevin scheduled a date of May 15 to hear a motion to dismiss the case filed by Jerome attorney Patrick McMillen, public defender for Aragon.
Aragon, 55, is charged with involuntary manslaughter and felony injury to a child. After his car became stuck in snow on Christmas morning on West Magic Reservoir Road, Aragon allegedly allowed his daughter, Sage Aragon, and 12-year-old son, Bear Aragon, to attempt to walk some nine miles through frigid and windy conditions to visit their mother, who was house sitting in the West Magic Reservoir area.
Bear was found later that evening, cold but alive, in a roadside restroom. Sage was found about 2 a.m. the following morning and pronounced dead later at St. Luke's Wood River Medical Center.
Terry Smith: tsmith@mtexpress.com