A Dawson county jury on Tuesday begun hearing evidence in a trial for a man accused in a 2007 crash that killed a former Arapahoe volleyball coach. 36 year old Hershel Huff formerly of Grant and Holbrook is charged with motor vehicle homicide in Furnas County district court in the death of 28 year old Kasey Jo Warner. Prosecuting attorneys say on Oct. 3, 2007, Huff engaged in an afternoon of drinking with friends at bars in Oxford before climbing into his vehicle with one of the friends and heading to Holbrook. State's attorney Mike Guinan says the lives of Ms. Warner and Huff tragically combined that night between 7 and 7:15 p.m. when Huff's vehicle traveling 72-84 mph struck Ms. Warner while she was jogging on a county road south of Arapahoe and she died at the scene. Prior to the impact, Warner shoved her then-3-year old daughter out of the way. Guinan says at the hospital, Huff refused to take an alcohol test. Defense attorney Rick Calkins said Huff was having marital difficulties and spent a good deal of time talking on the phone with his wife while in the bars that afternoon. He also said that Furnas county authorities made mistakes in the investigation by not administering field sobriety tests and other tests at the scene of the crash. Calkins asked jurors to wait until the end of the trial to form an opinion. The state called Ryan Markwardt to the stand. The 24 year old spent the afternoon testifying about being in the bars with Huff that day and events leading up to the car-pedestrian accident that took the life of Kasey Jo Warner. The trial is taking place in Dawson County District Court over fears that a fair and impartial jury could not be impaneled in Furnas County. The trial resumes Wednesday.