MEMPHIS, Tenn. — The attorney for murder suspect Austin Drummond is fighting a Lake County judge's order to move him to a state prison while he awaits trial.

Drummond's attorney, Drew Farmer, filed a motion arguing the transfer is illegal, since Tenn. law only allows convicted inmates to be held in a penitentiary.

Farmer says sending Drummond to the Tennessee Department of Correction before trial adds an unfair stigma of guilt and violates his client's right to be presumed innocent.

He's now asking the court for permission to appeal that transfer before the trial begins.

Drummond is accused of murdering four people and abandoning a baby in a case that sparked a statewide manhunt.

The judge granted a motion, over the defense’s objection, to transfer Drummond to a Tennessee Department o

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