SANTA ROSA, Jan. 17 – Nancy Pittman exchanged loving glances yesterday with her fiance, Michael Lee Monfort.

The two will be married soon, a friend said, in an unusual double wedding ceremony.

In the Sonoma County Jail.

Miss Pittman, 25, ex-member of the infamous Charles Manson family, is serving time in the state prison for women at Frontera.

She will be called later as a defense witness for Monfort, one of two state prison inmates on trial here for murder.

Monfort and his co defendant, James Terrill Craig, are charged with first-degree murder of James Willett, 26-year-old son of a Kentucky distiller whose headless remains were found buried in a mountain grave near Guerneville Nov, 8, 1972.

Selection of their jury is to begin today if Superior Court Judge Kenneth Eymann denies their motion to dismiss their Grand Jury indictment.

Miss Pittman’s conservative attire gave no hint she was once associated with the Manson family — responsible for the grotesque Sharon Tate murders in Southern California.

She and her companion, Priscilla Cooper, 22, a former topless dancer and also an ex-Manson woman, plan to take advantage of their reunion with Monfort and Craig.

Defense lawyer George Douglas Vaughn said arrangements are being made for a double wedding ceremony somewhere in the jail between Miss Pittman and Monfort and Miss Cooper and Craig.

Miss Pittman exchanged several glances and smiles with Monfort yesterday during a pre-trial defense motion to dismiss the murder charge.

Vaughn asked for dismissal on grounds the prosecution took 288 days to commence prosecution of the two men, thus they have been denied a “speedy trial.”

Vaughn called Miss Pittman to support his contention the delay has prejudiced the defense case.

Miss Pittman testified she was Monfort’s constant companion in October of 1972, when Willett was slain, but that she cannot now recall specific dates they associated with various persons.

Dist. Atty. John W. Hawkes argued it was no fault of his office that the prosecution was delayed.

The prosecutor said Sonoma County could not begin the prosecution until the two defendant’s murder case in San Joaquin County was completed.

In Stockton, Monfort was convicted of second-degree murder of Willett’s 19-year-old wife, Laurent, and Craig was convicted of being an “accessory after the fact.”

They are serving time in state prison for those offenses.

Public Defender Marteen Miller, Craig’s lawyer, urged Eymann to advise William Merland Goucher fully of his rights when he takes the stand.

Goucher early last year pleaded guilty to second-degree murder in the Willett death, then turned state’s evidence against Monfort and Craig at a Grand Jury hearing.

Goucher reportedly has retracted his testimony and Miller said yesterday he forsees a number of legal complications if Goucher is called by Hawkes.

Eymann, meanwhile denied motions for charge of venue and to sever Craig’s trial from that of Monfort’s.

The judge also restricted Hawkes on the number of prior felony convictions he can use against both defendants during the trial.

Eymann said he would rule on Vaughn’s dismissal motion this morning prior to calling of the roll of prospective jurors.

By BONY SALUDES