Attorney Gen. Jim Hood says the state is ready to go in the Edgar Ray Killen murder case.

Hood was in Philadelphia Wednesday. He says the two-month delay in the case shouldn't hurt it, and Hood says new information comes in every day.

"We're ready. We've been working on it for a year, pretty steady," said Hood. "Something every day has come up about it, but we'll be ready when the time comes."

Killen is charged with murder in the 1964 deaths of civil rights workers, James Chaney, Michael Schwerner and Andrew Goodman. He was not indicted for murder until earlier this year.

Meanwhile, a New Orleans man, who once lived in Philadelphia, has been added to the state's list of witnesses.

Wilmer Faye Jones has been subpoenaed as a material witness in the Killen case.

Prosecutors say he was held in the Neshoba County Jail in 1964 before being released, then questioned by Killen and others about his civil rights activities.

Killen's trial is scheduled to start June 13.