Attorneys don't mention dicamba in Arkansas murder trial

BLYTHEVILLE, Ark. (AP) — Attorneys failed to mention during opening statements in a murder trial that a controversial herbicide allegedly sparked the fight in northeast Arkansas between the suspect and the victim.

Allan Curtis Jones is charged with first-degree murder in the October 2016 shooting death of Mike Wallace, a farmer in Leachville, Arkansas. Jones lives in nearby Arbyrd, Missouri.

Police said the two men began arguing because Wallace believed the dicamba drifting onto his fields was coming from Jones' land along the Missouri-Arkansas border, the Jonesboro Sun reported. Neither the prosecutor nor the defense attorney mentioned dicamba during opening statements Tuesday.