FLOYD -- Opening arguments are expected to begin today in the case against Jeffery Young, who is accused of hitting a woman with his vehicle early last year in the parking lot of a Floyd County grocery store.

Jury selection began Monday and lasted nearly six hours. Several potential jurors were dismissed because of their ties to witnesses or their knowledge of the case from the media.

Young's Floyd County case had drawn media attention because it was tied to a fatal hit-and-run in Roanoke County that happened two days before the incident at Slaughters' Supermarket.

Young, 32, was acquitted of involuntary manslaughter in June in the Roanoke County case. Prosecutors had no eyewitnesses and lacked physical evidence to connect Young to the death of lawyer Thomas Farrell.

Young's lawyers, Fred Kellerman and Neil Horn, asked for a change of venue, but Judge Howe Brown did not grant that motion. Brown, a retired judge from Fairfax County, is presiding over the trial because Judge Ray Grubbs had a conflict of interest in the case.

Kellerman and Horn told potential jurors that they don't deny that Young hit the woman with his car on Jan. 30, 2008. Instead, they plan to argue that he was insane when it happened and will ask the jury to find him not guilty by reason of insanity.

Young's lawyers asked some potential jurors if they would think differently of Young if they knew that he has refused to take medicine to treat his paranoid schizophrenia.

A total of 12 jurors and two alternates -- seven men and seven women -- eventually were chosen, and then dismissed for the day.

Young is charged with one count each of assault on a law enforcement officer and malicious wounding and two counts of obstruction of justice.