Lawyers in Stephen McDaniel's murder trial are headed back to court Monday, one week before jury selection in his case is scheduled to begin.

A 9 a.m. motions hearing is scheduled before Judge Howard SImms in Bibb County Superior Court. That's according to a news release from the office of District Attorney David Cooke.

The release does not describe which motions will be discussed, and lawyers in the case are under a gag order from Simms.

But last week, McDaniel's lawyers filed a motion on jury selection. They asked to interview potential jurors in panels of 12, at one-hour intervals, rather than in a single large group.

The defense lawyers wrote that potential jurors who are required to sit in a courtroom for hours "become uncomfortable, bored, agitated" and, after hearing lawyers' questions, often figure out ways to avoid getting picked for the jury.

The former commander of a Macon American Legion post is accused of stealing nearly $5,300 from the post.

Kenneth Maye, age 59, of Lizella was arrested Thursday and charged with fidicuiary theft by taking, according to the Bibb County jail. He was released later Thursday on $4,050 bond.

According to an arrest warrant, Maye admitted to investigators that he took a $5,293 check from a game-machine company and put it in his personal account instead of the post's safe or bank account.

Maye told investigators he believed the post owed him the funds because he had contributed his own money to the post's game-machine payouts.

But post officials told investigators that Maye was not authorized to keep the check. The arrest warrant was issued April 8, and Maye surrendered to the jail Thursday, according to jail records.