spent in legal arguments yesterday but it is expected that the jury will start hearing evidence this morning.

Vaucrosson, a lawyer who lives on North Shore Road, Pembroke, is accused of stealing more than $300,000 from the beneficiaries of Percy Charles Ball's trust fund. Ball was a journalist at the Bermuda Broadcasting Company.

The trial involves nine charges. The first eight relate to Vaucrosson acting for Ball's estate between an unknown time and February 1 and March 1, 1991.

It is alleged that he has stolen money -- ranging in amounts from $9,000 to $151,750 from the beneficiaries of the estate.

And the ninth charge alleges that he fraudulently disposed of the trust property -- some $393,782.58 -- and committed it to uses other than those authorised by the trust.