Arraignment for Carl Brandon, accused of killing one person and wounding another in a March shooting spree in Port Gibson, has been scheduled for Wednesday.

Also in the case, the appointment of 9th District Circuit Judge Frank Vollor to preside has been continued.

Brandon is accused of the March 17 fatal shooting of 30-year Port Gibson attorney Allen Burrell, who represented the Claiborne County Board of Supervisors, firing into the home of County Administrator James Miller and then shooting and wounding county employee Loretha Porter.

Brandon, 52, was indicted by the Claiborne County Grand Jury that met the week of Sept. 4. Formally, the charges are murder, shooting into an occupied dwelling and aggravated assault.

Brandon surrendered at the Claiborne County Sheriff’s Department immediately after the shootings, which occurred during about 20 minutes beginning around 8 a.m. outside Burrell’s office and ending in the county road-department office on Mississippi 18. Brandon has remained in jail since.

Arraignments are brief events at which defendants receive formal notification of the charges against them.

Burrell, 54, had represented the board of supervisors for 26 years and held numerous other leadership positions of local and statewide organizations.

Brandon was Claiborne County’s road manager when Burrell, Miller and Porter became involved in a county investigation into allegations that he sexually harassed a woman department employee, which he denied. That investigation resulted in Brandon’s firing from that job in 1997.

Brandon appealed unsuccessfully through the state’s court system, ending with an October 2002 refusal by the Mississippi Supreme Court to hear the case.

The circuit judge for Claiborne County, Lamar Pickard, recused himself from the case. The Mississippi Supreme Court appointed Vollor to hear preindictment matters.

That appointment has been extended for the remainder of the case through trial and an arraignment hearing on the September indictment has been scheduled for 10 a.m. Wednesday in Port Gibson, Court Administrator Lee Ann Stuart of Vollor’s office said Thursday.

Brandon’s attorneys, Ed Blackmon and Frank C. Jones of Canton, have requested that Brandon undergo psychological testing at University Medical Center. The district attorney for Claiborne County, Alexander Martin, has responded with a request for an independent examination of Brandon at the Mississippi State Hospital.