LOS ANGELES, Jul. 9 – Daye Shinn, a defense attorney In the 1970 Charles Manson murder trial, Monday pleaded innocent to charges he committed perjury three times in denying he gave newsman William Farr information despite a court gag order.

The now-defunct 1973-74 Los Angeles County Grand Jury indicted Shinn and chief Manson prosecutor Vincent T. Bugliosi June 28. Bugliosi was arraigned and pleaded innocent last Tuesday.

Superior Judge Raymond Choate told Shinn of the indictment formally Monday, a day earlier than Shinn had been scheduled for arraignment. The attorney advanced the date because he was in the Criminal Courts Building representing a client and did not want to return today for the appearance before Choate.

Choate ordered him to appear for setting of a trial date before Superior Judge Earl C. Broaday July 17, the same date set for Bugliosi’s pre-trial hearing before the same judge.

The grand jury indictment charged Shinn with lying under oath June 30, 1971, and Nov. 27, 1972, before Superior Judge Charle H. Older during hearings which ended in a contempt sentence for Farr for refusing to name his sources. The indictment also claimed Shinn lied before the grand jury last June 24.

According to the indictment, Shinn on June 30, 1371, answered “No, I did not” to the question: “But you did not relinquish possession of that transcript at any time?” The same day, the document said, he answered “Definitely not” to the question: “Did you give transfer or in any way relinquish possession or cause to have transferred, either by yourself or acting in connection with other parties, the transcript of the testimony of Virginia Graham Oct. 5, 1970, to Mr. Farr?”

On Nov. 27, 1972, according to the Indictment, Shinn answered “That is correct” to the question: “When you testified in June of 1971 that you had not given the transcript to Mr. Farr, were you stating the truth?”

In his recent grand jury testimony, the indictment stated. Shinn replied, “No, absolutely not” to the question:

“Did Bill Farr ever tell you that he would like to get a copy of the district attorney statement that they took from Virginia Graham?”

Shinn also, the indictment stated, answered “absolutely not” to the question: “Did you ever give him a copy of that statement?”

Farr, who covered the Manson trial for the Herald-Examiner, wrote a story based on transcripts of trial witness Virginia Graham’s statement that the Manson “family” planned to murder celebrities. Farr is now a Times reporter. He testified he obtained transcripts from two of the six Manson case attorneys.

Older three years ago sentenced Farr to an indefinite stay in jail for refusing to name his sources. That indefinite sentence was lifted last month by Superior Judge William H. Levit, and Farr on July 20 faces possible punitive sentencing by Older.

The reporter also briefly was found in contempt of the grand jury for refusing to answer its questions about the sources’ identities, but Choate later reversed himself and absolved Farr of that contempt.

Perjury is a felony. Conviction could mean 1 to 15 years in state prison and disbarment for Shinn and Bugliosi.

By MYRNA OLIVER