Woman who shot husband acquitted

[Fire_Medic_Dave]

A Brantley County jury acquitted a woman of murder and related charges Wednesday in the shooting death of her husband last year.

Teresa McKinney, 47, of Waynesville was found not guilty of malice murder, felony murder and four counts of aggravated assault in the death of Jeffrey McKinney, 45. He was shot in the head with a .22-caliber rifle on Feb. 27 at their home and died a month later.

Jurors deliberated 90 minutes before acquitting her in the death that her attorney, John Thigpen, argued was "justifiable homicide."

"He beat her to pieces, just black and blue," Thigpen told the Times-Union after the verdict. "He beat her like she was a borrowed mule. She acted in self-defense, and it was justifiable homicide."

McKinney, a retired school bus driver, testified she shot her husband after he repeatedly hit her in the head with a broomstick in an attack that began when he started cursing and verbally abusing her. After beating her, he left the house and she locked him out. Mc-Kinney told jurors she warned him that if he returned, she would kill him.


http://www.jacksonville.com/news/georgia/2009-02-05/story/woman_who_shot_husband_acquitted

David

[Liberal_in_LA]

1. He beat her one too many times.

[Fire_Medic_Dave]

2. I bet he was gonna get help after that time too.

:sarcasm:

[sasquatch]

3. The bastard got what he deserved

[pansypoo53219]

4. no.

too quick + not enough suffering for him.