Defendants in two separate Lamar County murder cases will stand trial during the March 2010 term of circuit court.

The cases were set for trial Thursday.

Prosecutors say 29-year-old Natasha Graham of Lumberton has been charged with capital murder in the death of Tabitha Hartfield of Lumberton. Authorities say the body of the 23-year-old Hartfield was found May 31, 2008, in a shallow grave in the woods off a county road,

In the second case, 28-year-old Jennifer D. Wardle of Brooklyn has been charged with murder in the shooting death of James Neal May.

May, a 22-year-old University of Southern Mississippi student, was found shot to death on May 1, 2002. The Mississippi Bureau of Investigation arrested Wardle on Nov. 6, 2007.