A Willow Springs woman has been granted a change of judge in her second degree murder trial. 48 year old Sara Messex Pullen requested a change of judge after 37th Judicial Circuit Court Judge Steve Privette was assigned on September 29th. The case will now be heard by 25th Judicial Circuit Court Judge William Earle Hickle. Messex-Pullen, faces the second-degree murder charge after the May 6 stabbing death of 36 year old Larry Randall Tucker, also of Willow Springs. She was taken into custody May 8. She is also charged with two counts of armed criminal action and one count of first-degree assault. She has been in the Howell County Jail on $500,000 bail since her arrest
