FILE - This undated image provided by the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department shows Harold Montague. On Monday, April 12, 2010, Sonia Lisset Castro said through tears and a translator that Montague laughed as she pleaded for him to stop striking her and her 4-month-old son with a medieval-style battle ax on a residential street. (AP Photo/Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department)
LAS VEGAS (AP) - A 34-year-old man pleaded not guilty by reason of insanity to charges that he hacked a 4-month-old baby to death and critically wounded the infant's mother with a medieval-style battle ax.
Clark County District Court Judge Stefany Miley on Monday set a June 2011 trial date for Harold Montague.
Montague could face the death penalty if convicted of charges including murder, attempted murder and battery with a deadly weapon in the Feb. 11 attack outside his Las Vegas home.
Montague also stands accused of stabbing his disabled sister-in-law before bursting outside and attacking the child and the mother walking a stroller past his house.
Defense lawyer Norm Reed says Montague understands the charges against him, but a jury will see he's criminally insane.